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

Recess by De La Rue from Perkins Bacon Plates - this was the first occasion on which De La Rue had ever printed from engraved plates; the problems with perforating however, continued.
1863 (Dec 16): 1 d. carmine-rose, no wmk., perf. 13, an unused block of four (positions 108-109/128-129), first stamp with typical gum bend, of fine colour, large part og. Gi = £ 320+.