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Auction: 12015 - The Chartwell Collection - GB Line Engra
Lot: 37

Great BritainLine Engraved Essays and ProofsThe "Rainbow" Colour TrialsThe First Trial Plate of Three May 1840 The sheet of three in blue-black on smaller crown watermark with some manuscript notation down the right side, "dipt H & H Colour" in the hand of Joshua Bacon; small surface defect at lower right of the right hand impression, otherwise fine. The small trial sheets are the earliest and by far the rarest and most desirable of the "Rainbow" trials. S.G. Spec. DP19 (a), £220,000

Estimate
£70,000 to £80,000