Auction 333-341 Western Australia & Great Britain - Day 3

1865 (July 4): 4 d. dull vermilion, Plate 8, imperforate Plate Proof on thin un-watermarked, un-gummed paper, lettered NI, with large margins all round and of fine colour. Rare: the Karl Louis Card Index records a pane of 20 in private hands, another in the National Postal Museum (Vol. XXXI, page 45) and just 10 single examples Gi J55 = £ 2'200.
Provenance: Collection Ernest Dale, SG, London, 10-11 June 1969, lot 270; Collection Dr. Douglas Latto, Phillips, London, Oct 1992, lot 103.