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

Sideface 1897/1908: Imperforate Colour Trial for the proposed 9 d. value, an unused horizontal pair, marginal from left of sheet, printed in vermilion on ungummed wmk. Crown over Q paper, deleted with black ink stripes. This pair was prepared in 1903 to comply with the new basic Telegram rate of 9 d. but rejected in favour of the uniform 9 d. brown & ultramarine proposed by Postmaster General Drake which only Queensland and New South Wales were to adopt.rnrnProvenance: Collection Col. Harrie Evans, Premier, Melbourne, 4 May 2002, lot 508.rn                      Collection Bernie Manning, Prestige, Melbourne, 13 June 2009, lot 1212.rn