- Condition: MNH (**)
- Year: 1998
- Catalogue: Stanley Gibbons
- Number(s): see below
- Catalog value: £34.00
286 30p Antarctic Explorer and H.M.S. Erebus, 1843 £3.50
287 35p Explorer with dog, and Discovery I, 1900 £4.00
288 40p Surveyor, and Fitzroy, 1943 £4.00
289 65p Scientist with Adelie penguins, and James Clark Ross, 1998 £5.50
Postage £0.80
MNH = "Mint Never Hinged" with original gum without any gum disturbance
MLH = "Mint Lightly Hinged" with original gum that shows slight marks from previous hinging or a small unobtrusive hinge remnant
M = "Mint" with original gum, that has significant marks from 1 or more hinges, or the actual hinge remains present
UN = "Unused" without gum
VFU = "Very Fine Used" with either a clear neat cancel or a neat corner cds, well centred for issue with nice perfs, and 4 margins on imperfs
FU = "Fine Used" still an attractive stamp with a fairly neat average cancel for issue, may be somewhat off centred, perfs may be slightly irregular or imperfs may have less than 4 margins.
GU = "Good Used" an average used stamp that may have a heavy or smudged cancel or minor blemishes from postal use
CTO = “Cancelled To Order” (note: VFU or FU stamps may in fact be CTO)
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