CORINPHILA AUCTIONS 297 - 308 Day 3

Long Stamps 1885: De La Rue Essay for the 'Long Stamps', the initial hand-painted Essay without Duty Plate on card (32 x 47 mm.) hand-painted in violet with POSTAGE AND REVENUE touched up in Chinese white, endorsed in manuscript "1 JULY 85" at top. Illustrated in "The De La Rue Collection" edited by Frank Walton RDP on page 6044. Unique and magnificent Essay.rnProvenance: RL, Melbourne, 5 Aug 1976, lot 72; Stanley Gibbons, Melbourne, 13 April 1994.