What Qualified This One Penny Stamp For Such A Value?

Hello,

I just saw this auction entry and wonder why it is sold for such a money? What is special about this stamp: the plate, the alphabet, the cancel(s), the date?

https://www.philasearch.com/en/i_90...9/item.html?

thank you.
I don't know nearly anything about the Penny stamps, but just saw this entry and had to ask.

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I searched a bit about the plate. Plate 61 does not seem to be a rare plate, the only rare plate of this stamp I found is plate 33?

The numeral is 86, not 98. Blackburn wouldn't be a rare number unless it's a rare type. Is the Clitheroe mark rare? Apparently there are a number of re-entries on plates 59 to 75 so maybe that's the reason?

I looked in the SG Great Britain Queen Victoria catalogue (5th edition, quite old) as far as I can see the stamp is not unusual, though I couldn't trace the meaning of varieties vb. The canceller looks to be of a style used pre stamp.
Perhaps because I don't know I shouldn't be posting, but come on you experts stop us scratching our headsand wondering.

thank you both, I am glad that I am not the only one who does not see the special value in this stamp :).
Hopefully somebody has any answer helping us. What I wonder is that they give a high catalogue value so it must something listed in any catalogue.

in the meantime and as you just looked into your catalogues: is there any plate rated as "rare" for this stamp? I saw the plate 33 as rare, I guess this is true, but are there other plates which could mean premium? (the pl. 61 in this example probably not?)

I can't figure it out either. This may explain a bit of it, but not much of it:
http://www.cgpostal.com/myvictoria/Slide95.JPG
Chip

Not sure why the estimate was so high, but it was actually unsold.

thank you both. Very interesting link from your collection, chipg, it was a pleasure to look at all your pages. So now I also know which plates are rare, I guess those where the place is not filled :).

I looked directly in the auction catalogue:
https://d3ums4016ncdkp.cloudfront.n...35/18035.pdf

Same information as on Philasearch. Maybe the "specialised BS28vd" is telling us something?
I think the numeral error could be a premium, but probably not thousands of £.

I suspect it is because of the plate number.

Is there any rarity about plate number 61? I found many other stamps with this plate number without premium.

The only one I found rare is 33, and the last ones 174-177 ?

Was away and just got back to my references (SG Victoria Specialized, 16th edition)
Worked on figuring out the catalog number:

BS28 - imperforate from plates 59-75 (nothing special)
"d" is a suffix for "double letter," but PB is not listed as a double letter position.
however...
Found the "vd" suffix under beginning of imperforate penny red section (page 80). It refers to:
"Town Cancellations (on stamps)" vx is the catagory - va is black, vb is blue, ..., vd is red.
"Large portion of p/m on stamp" is listed as a catalog of £15000. However, I think this refers to having only the red town cancellation, not both the town and the numeral. However, it could explain the lofty estimate.

As it did not sell, apparently no one else believes that this catalog value applies to this stamp on this cover (with the 98 numeral).

At least there is now a plausible explanation for the lot description.
Chip

Thanks Chip,

My copy of the SG QV catalogue arrived yesterday, 16th edition also. What an amazing amount of information to absorb. Your description has helped me no end so I thank you for that.

I think you're absolutely correct on the vd catalogue number being the reason for the high estimate.

Bobby

Thank you, yes, this is probably the explanation. It's not really a large portion on the stamp, but on the cover, so they thought. But the collectors didn't think so yet, also no SCF member yet :).

I don't own this great work of catalogue, so thank you all for your interesting posts.