Auction 321 - 332 Australian States & Commonwealth of Australia, St. Helena, Basutoland, Bechuanaland, Swaziland, Brazil 1843 –1870 - Day 1

Pictorial Issue 1899: Pictorial 5 d., De La Rue Colour Trial engraved in deep sepia-brown, imperforate example with sheet margin at left, adhered to paper (48 x 35 mm.). Illustrated in "The De La Rue Collection" edited by Frank Walton RDP. on page 6276. Rare and very fine.rnrnProvenance: Robson Lowe, Melbourne, 5 Aug 1976, ex lot 122.rn                     Stanley Gibbons, Melbourne, 13 April 1994, lot 1230.