Great Britain, Scott #357 (Stanley Gibbons #574)(Michel #322xX), used(o), 1959, Wilding: Queen Elizabeth II; the Wildings were a series of definitive postage and revenue stamps featuring the Dorothy Wilding photographic image of Queen Elizabeth II at age twenty-six that were in use between 1952 and 1971, with many unusual features: three different watermarks, paper often laid in reverse and sideways resulting in inverted and sideways watermarks, early experiments with phosphorus and graphite bands to ease automated processing, and guillotine cut edges on booklet versions, this stamp, the third Wilding watermark, upright multiple Saint Edward's Crowns (two-tiered, round lobes emphasized) with no E2R in reverse print script (Scott watermark #322, Stanley Gibbons watermark #179, Michel wasserzeichen 22), Scott Type II image: top line in the center cross of the diadem is complete; from a sheet, perforated: 14½x14, with customer or counter torn perforations on all four sides (TTTT), ER in top corners, hashmarks form the oval, flower and value in lower corners, no phosphorus or graphite, photogravure printed, 2½ pence, scarlet, Scott 2022 catalog value: 25¢; very slightly off-centered, black-inked, horizontal, discontinuous wavy line cancellation over the lower half of the stamp and over the main image, sound back, good perforations. This is not a 'bait-and-switch' offer; the stamp you see will be the one you receive.
Please review my terms of sale. If you are not ordering from the United States, there is a $US1.55 additional postage expense that needs to be added to the price of the stamp. If you are ordering from the United States, there is only a $US0.68 added postage expense. Also, if you make additional purchases from my offerings, they can all go in one mailing at no extra shipping expense for the added purchases. I will send the purchase by US first class mail, since the relatively low value of the stamp does not warrant signature or tracking mail. Hence the buyer assumes risk of loss or non-delivery. I will keep a scan of my mailing to verify that the correct mailing address was used. If not satisfied, return the stamp to me at your own expense, and I will refund the cost, but not my postage to you. If the stamp is not as described, I will refund the cost and reimburse you for postage both ways.
By way of reference, I am an American Philatelic Society member (195176) and an American Stamp Dealers Association (ASDA) member. Thank you for looking, and I hope this is the perfect stamp to fill that gap in your collection.
