Auction 321 - 332 Australian States & Commonwealth of Australia, New South Wales, St. Helena, Basutoland The ‘BESANÇON’ Collection - Day 2

1897: De La Rue Colour Trials, Imperforate without watermark, twelve examples for the 1 m. value, all bicoloured in a superb range of colours, fresh and very fine, large part og. A magnificent group presumably culled from the 16 December 1897 proposal Appendix sheets which bore 36 different examples (see illustrations in "The De La Rue Collection" edited by Frank Walton RDP on pages 6149 and 6150). Rare.rnProvenance: Collection Col. H.E. Hebbert, Robson Lowe, London, 10 Nov 1977; Sir John Inglefield-Watson, Spink, London, 3 Oct 2007, lot 1744.