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Auction: 11033 - Autumn Collector's Series Sale
Lot: 2145

x Tasmania 1871 Sideface 9d., four imperforate colour trial horizontal pairs, in orange and in ochre on gummed Crown CC watermarked paper, and in slate-violet and in black on ungummed unwatermarked paper. A very fine group. Photo Estimate £ 2,500-3,000 Note: As the colour of the 9d. stamp was not specified by Tasmania, De La Rue printed five sheets of the 9d. in different colours and despatched the sheets to Tasmania with the 9d. plate in 1871. The trials were the only English use of the plate. The colour trials were acquired by a veteran Tasmanian stamp dealer in the 1920s.

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