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Lot# 30296 - Auction 309-320

  • Lot# : 30296 Tasmania

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    1885: De La Rue Essay for proposed 10 s. value to replace the 'St. George & Dragon' Fiscal high values, entirely hand-drawn and painted in pencil and shades of green ink, highlighted with Chinese white on brown tracing paper (37 x 43 mm.) with perforaations in pencil. The Essay endorsed "M" at top left. Illustrated in "The De La Rue Collection" edited by Frank Walton RDP on page 6245. Beautiful and unique.rnrnProvenance: Robson Lowe, Melbourne, 5 Aug 1976, ex lot 102; Stanley Gibbons, Melbourne, 13 April 1994, lot 1203; Collection "Besançon", Corinphila sale 221, 23 Nov 2017, lot 6344.rn                    
    Starting bid : 750 CHF
    Hammer price : 1,800 CHF