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Auction: 14015 - The Collector's series sale
Lot: 1968

New South Wales
1897-99 Diamond Jubilee competition essay, an enlarged pen and ink design for a 1d. value in red and black on paper (115x145mm.) pinned to piece of folded paper with Tender Board d.s. dated "22 apr. 97" and numbered No. 140; also photographs of twenty-five designs submitted by sixteen submitters, ten with Tender Board handstamps for Nos. 8, 12, 14, 17 18, 20 21, 42, 43 and 95, a large piece of folded paper with ten different photographs marked "Ten photographic reductions of selected designs", three photographs of proposed 1d., 2d. and 2½d. designs on piece of folded paper headed "designs prepared by the government printer", another sheet of folded paper headed "designs for proposed new postage stamps" signed by the judges with photographs of the best and runner-up designs, and a letter dated 27 April 1897 from the Government Printer with the proposed cost of production. A most fascinating lot. Photo

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