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Auction: 24023 - British East Africa - The Simon Greenwood Collection
Lot: 256

British East Africa
1897-1903 Large Queen De La Rue Definitive Issue
Essays
1r. to 50r., eight perforated colour trials in issued colours, each with hand-painted value tablet, gummed, a few faults including 50r. with horizontal crease. Extremely rare, attractive and spectacular. Photo

Note: Three sets of these essays were made by De La Rue; the "customer" set, the De La Rue "working" set for the printers, and the De La Rue "record" set. The Greenwood set is either the "customer" set or the "working" set. The "record" set is on an Appendix sheet (the "Shivani" collection - Spink, 8th May 1997, lot 281); the third set, which is either the "customer" set or the "working" set, is in the Royal Philatelic Collection.

provenance:
David Seys, November 1971
Dr. Kenneth Pennycuick
"Shivani", May 1997
John Minns, April 2001

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