Corinphila Auction 284-290 Day 2

1902 (Jan 16): De La Rue Appendix sheet showing three imperforate Colour Trials with 3 d. Duty Plates in deep slate & orange, bistre & pale green and in deep purple & magenta, each annotated "2/-" alongside in manuscript, handstamped upon receipt (Jan 18) by the Crown Agents. The first example in deep slate & orange signed off with "WHM" in manuscript by William Mercer as accepted on January 20. Illustrated in "The De La Rue Collection" edited by Frank Walton on page 3237. Splendid and extremely rare.rnProvenance: RL, London, 24 Nov 1976, lot 68; Collection R.F. Bavington-Jones, SG, London, 17-20 June 1986, lot 2012; Collection 'A Fellow of the Royal', Harmers, London, 9 Nov 1988, lot 560.