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  • Lot# : 3759 Bermuda

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    1924/32: 12 s. 6 d. grey & orange, wmk. Multiple Script CA, an unused Imperforate Plate Proof on piece from the De La Rue records, showing "Break in Lines below Left Scroll" flaw (Row 4, stamp 9, position 57), annotated alongside in manuscript "App'd for Colour" and signed and dated "H.W. 9/7/32". Illustrated in "The De La Rue Collection" edited by Frank Walton RDP on page 2298. This Plate Proof pulled just weeks before the stamp was issued. A rare and particularly appealing Proof.rnProvenance: RL, Bermuda, 2 Dec 1976, lot 226; Collection R.W. Dickgiesser, Cherrystone, New York, 26 Oct 1999, lot 117.
    Starting bid : 1,200 CHF
    Hammer price : 1,700 CHF