This first class international exhibition will be held in the Principality of Monaco between the 1st and 3rd of December. The prestigious exhibition will count with the "100 stamps and philatelic documents among the rarest in the world".
Unique complete "specimen"-sheet of the blue Great-Britain 2d from 1841
In 1849 the Kingdom of Prussia planned to introduce stamps and asked the British Royal Mail for information about the technical process of the stamp production. The Royal mail gave the prussian post a complete specimen-sheet that was only recently rediscovered in the Philatelic Archives of the "Museumsstiftung" in Bonn.Postal authorities of Sicily and Austria also received one similar specimen-sheet that got lost. Beeing unique, the worth of this last sheet is nothing else than invaluable.
Monaco
Not less than 70 copies of 10 centimes of the "Bordeaux" issue, printed while Paris was besieged, composed the franking of this letter to Genoa in 1871. A block of 38, which is the largest known multiple for this French issue, is cancelled with the large numeral "2387" used in Monaco. This document is a major rarity of the French as well as the Monegasque postal history.Great Britain
The "VR" Official stamp (so known because the letters V and R appear in place of stars in the top corners) was prepared and printed in 1840 but in the event never issued for use in government offices. Nevertheless copies of the stamp got into public hands and this cover was sent through the post in Ireland in February 1841. Very few covers with the stamp survive.
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