Wilkie Collins Signature Canada stamps Trivial traces of perforation toning

Trivial traces of perforation toning on reverse mentioned for accuracy only as this example is much above average for this issue

Mason took several famous portraits of Dickens

Great Britain 1841 1d Red-brown Plate 132

Very light horizontal wrinkle at the top

London on January 6

Wilkie Collins Signature Canada stamps Trivial traces of perforation toningAn attractive ink signature from British writer Wilkie Collins (1824 1889). Wilkie Collins is regarded as one of the finest British novelists and playwrights. His novels The Woman in White and The Moonstone are pillars of English literature, with the latter regarded as the first English detective novel. A beautiful ink signature, "Wilkie Collins, on a 5 x 2 inch slip clipped from a document. In very good condition. Written by the same hand that penned