“Ralph Waldo Emerson Junior High School
Plate 3 is recognised as the printing plate which produced the finest impressions of the penny black
"To the king o[u]r Soveraigne Lorde
as most of the printing will have been destroyed in 1952
lower left corner block of 4 from Dec
Cyprus 1880 ½d rose SG1 Aden stamps “Ralph Waldo Emerson Junior HighCyprus 1880 (1 Apr) d rose, type 1 overprint on GB, plate 19, lettered "JE" , fresh colour with above average centring, excellent perforations and full original gum (with just a trace of hingeing). Minor toning but an attractive and desirable example of this key rarity, much above average, with impressive provenance and associations, being the right stamp of the horizontal pair formerly in the Richardson collection (RL 6 7 1960, lot 157), which was