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Auction: 171 - The Philatelic Collector's Series Sale
Lot: 288

1d Downey Head paper trials, four examples illustrating experimental printings, including perforated carmine and pale carmine on thick, chalk-surfaced paper without watermark, imperforate scarlet and carmine examples on Austrian enameled wove paper, and a sample of Multiple Cypher watermark paper (129x60mm) produced by the Basted Mills; a fine group.


Sold for
$210