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Auction: 25026 - Stamps and Covers of Africa Featuring the 'Protea' Collection of South Africa
Lot: 1326

South Africa
1913-24 King's Head Issue
Watermark Essays
1912 group of ten proposed watermark designs executed by De La Rue in Chinese white and with stamp-sized borders in pencil on tracing paper (120 x 157mm.) with designs as follows and annotated "Protea", "Ixia (Iris)", "Springbock", "Wildebeest", "Horns of Koodoo" and "Disa (Orchid)" and four further designs without annotations, three of which are Crown and 'u s a' in various iterations; also marked 'Traced from a mounted Tracing'; and a further photographic essay of the Springbok design illustrating how the design could be treated to produce an overall pattern; superb and rare

provenance:
'Africa in Switzerland', Robson Lowe, October 1976

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Sold for
£4,000

Starting price
£1200