CORINPHILA AUCTIONS 297 - 308 Day 1

1897: De La Rue Appendix sheet (161 x 326 mm.) for "Colour Scheme similar to that dated Jan 9, 1894" and dated at top "Aug 24th 1897", showing 6 d. "Imperium" imperforate Keyplate Proofs, single colours for ½ d., 1 d. and 6 d.; others bicoloured as selected and annotated alongside each Proof - the proposed 3 d. in brown & dull green rejected with red manuscript pen cross and marginal reddish purple & blue attached alongside; proposed 4 d., 6 d. and 1 s. values folded underneath. Illustrated in the "De La Rue Collection" edited by Frank Walton RDP on page 3235 but without the 'additional Specimens' originally affixed at right of the sheet. Extremely rare.rnProvenance: Collection Whitfield, RL, London, 24 Nov 1976, lot 47; Harmers, London, 9 Nov 1988, lot 542; Collection John Rose, Grosvenor, 23 May 2011, lot 237.rnrn