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  • Lot# : 40266 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 pale and deep green ink, highlighted with Chinese white on brown tracing paper (50 x 52 mm.) with perforations in pencil. The Essay endorsed "K" 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.rn                     Stanley Gibbons, Melbourne, 13 April 1994, lot 1199.rn                     Collection "Besançon", Corinphila sale 221, 23 Nov 2017, lot 6343.rn                    
    Starting bid : 750 CHF
    Hammer price : 1,300 CHF