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Auction: 19015 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale
Lot: 1698

(x) Labuan
1879 (May) 2c. blue-green plate proof on surfaced card, a complete imperforate sheet of ten (5x2) marked "534/3" at lower left. A splendid exhibition item. Photo

Note: The 2c. was the first adhesive produced by De La Rue from a recess-engraved plate.

provenance:
De La Rue archives, September 1976
Commander M. Burnett, October 1984
Spink auction, March 1997
Patrick Cassels, November 2006
"Walter Bickly", July 2011

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Sold for
£2,000