Great Britain 1876 8d purple brown Plate 1 imprimatur, SG156avar Bavaria stamps used with two part strikes

used with two part strikes of 'PAQUEBOT/L(IVERPO)OL' circular date stamps

The Chalon portrait of Queen Victoria design in an engine-turned oval is part of the celebrated “Chalon Head” series used across several British colonies

including Roman Holiday (1953)

The image depicts a 34-year-old Mandela as a lawyer in his office in 1952

It reads in French:

Great Britain 1876 8d purple brown Plate 1 imprimatur, SG156avar Bavaria stamps used with two part strikesGreat Britain 1876 8d purple brown Plate 1 imprimatur, SG156avar. A superb unmounted mint, with full original gum, top marginal imperforate imprimatur lettered 'AH' lightly mounted in margin on face and reverse, showing small part sheet inscription "PRICE ". A magnificent example of this great Queen Victorian rarity. Stanley Gibbons catalogue value: 12,000. This value was issued to prepay the rate at that time to India via Marseilles and to Australia