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Auction: 11030 - The "Walter Bickly" Collection of Labuan and North Borneo Stamps
Lot: 5

LABUAN 1879 (May) Watermark CA over Crown, sideways Plate Proofs 2c. in green, a sheet of ten (5x2) pulled from the original die, on thin surfaced card marked "534/3", fine. Photo Estimate £ 6,000-8,000 Note: The 2c. was the first adhesive produced by De La Rue from a recess-engraved plate. provenance: De La Rue archives, September 1976 Commander M. Burnett, October 1984 Spink auction, March 1997 Patrick Cassels, November 2006

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