CORINPHILA AUCTIONS 297 - 308 Day 3

Postal Stationery 1891/96: South Australia Stamp Design Competition, an Essay for proposed postal stationery card, with postcard sized artwork for a 1 d. card with magnificent ornamental lettering and Arms imprint, the stamp design showing small Kangaroo, the whole hand-painted and drawn in India ink in shades of black and grey, highlighted in Chinese white; affixed to black card (169 x 124 mm.). Endorsed "Mittimus" the entrant's pseudonym at base in ink. Unique and splendid.rnProvenance: RL, London, 19 April 1977; Prestige, Melbourne, 22 April 2006, lot 380.