Losnr. 4089 - 309.-320. Auktion
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Losnr. : 4089 St. Helena
1903: De Le Rue composite Artist's Essay, imperforate and stamp size, hand-painted in carmine and pink and touched up in Chinese white, inset in sunken card (56 x 76 mm.) with cut down Die Proof of the Wharf vignette above in black. Marked "B" at upper left and dated in manuscript "Dec 23, 01" at top right. Further manuscript at base "The approved design" and signed. Illustrated in "St. Helena" by Edward Hibbert on colour plate ii. Ex the De La Rue archives. Unique and wonderful.rnrnProvenance: Stanley Gibbons, Johannesburg, 6 May 1976, lot 610.Ausruf : 2.000 CHFZuschlag : 8.000 CHF