CORINPHILA AUCTIONS 297 - 308 Day 3

Internal Revenue 1881: Essay by De La Rue for the Internal Revenue high values, hand-painted on tracing paper in mauve and violet with INTERNAL REVENUE picked out in Chinese white, showing the frames hand-painted above for the proposed One Pound, One Pound Ten Shillings, Five Pounds and Ten Pound values; piece endorsed "C" and dated "June 8th / 81". Stunning and of great rarity, illustrated in "The De La Rue Collection" edited by Frank Walton RDP on page 6552.rnProvenance: RL, Melbourne, 5 Aug 1976, lot 188; Collection Francis Kiddle, Prestige, Melbourne, 23 Sept 2011, lot 965.