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  • Lot# : 4392 Natal

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    902/06: Essays from the De La Rue records, sheet headed "Appendix A" and dated "28 June 1906" at top, with Imperforate 1½ d. values (13) all in unissued colours, each printed in two colours with the exception of the first (in dull green, for the ½ d. value), and each annotated for the proposed colour scheme with the value alongside in manuscript. The Essays were produced following a complaint from the Natal Government that stamps had been found re-used with previous cancellations washed off, their request was for stamps to be supplied in doubly fugitive ink in future. Now in two separate halves for display, the page is illustrated in "The De La Rue Collection" edited by Frank Walton RDP on page 5024. Unique and superbly attractive.rnrnProvenance: Stanley Gibbons, London, 6 March 1981, lot 494.
    Starting bid : 1,500 CHF
    Hammer price : 5,000 CHF