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Lot# 20306 - Auction 298-307

  • Lot# : 20306 Tasmania

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    1891: De La Rue Master Die Proof in black for 10 d. value, printed in black on white glazed card, with three individual "10d." Duty Plates, two scored through in red ink and the accepted 'blank' design accepted and arroweed, signed off "H.W.E." (H.W. Eley was the Agent General for Tasmania in London); handstamped "14 OCT 91" in blue at top left and BEFORE / HARDENING at right: together with small De La Rue colour swatches from a banknote design in purple-lake and deep green. Illustrated in "The De La Rue Collection" edited by Frank Walton RDP. on page 6254. The Proof with holes at left where previously attached to the De La Rue records, a very rare working Proof.rnProvenance: Robson Lowe, Melbourne, 5 Aug 1976, lot 108; Collection Sir Gawaine Baillie, Sotheby's, Melbourne, 13-15 July 2005, lot 1119.   
    Starting bid : 2,500 CHF
    Hammer price : 2,500 CHF