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Auction: 24023 - British East Africa - The Simon Greenwood Collection
Lot: 206

British East Africa
1896-1901 Small Queen De La Rue Definitive Issue
Essays
The original artist's drawing in black and Chinese white on yellow tracing paper with a superimposed photographic head of Queen Victoria by Von Angeli; mounted on card (90x114mm.) and dated "July 17th 985". Delightful. Photo

Note: De La Rue's essay faithfully follows the pencilled essay submitted by the Foreign Office. This De La Rue essay was submitted to Mr. Walrond Clarke at the Foreign Office on 17th July, as confirmed by a letter in the archives. See "The De La Rue History of Britisn and Foreign Postage Stamps" by John Easton, page 563.

provenance:
Colonel J.R. Danson, May 1971
John Minns, April 2001

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Sold for
£6,500