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Auction: 16042 - New Zealand, The Professor Derek Diamond Collection featuring 2d. Chalons and the 1898-1908 Pictorial Issue
Lot: 394

New Zealand
1898-1908 Pictorial Issues
1907-08 Reduced Designs
Essay Die Proof
6d. original size die proof in black on wove paper (74x52mm.) with pencil lines drawn round the entire design, two arrows at foot marked "this to this" showing the reduced size required, offered with a photograph of the same die and marked "Engravers Working Photo For making Smaller Plate". A unique pair. Diamond page 143. Photo

provenance:
"Midas", December 1989
Sir Gawaine Baillie, February 2006

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Sold for
£700