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Auction: 25026 - Stamps and Covers of Africa Featuring the 'Protea' Collection of South Africa
Lot: 1328

South Africa
1913-24 King's Head Issue
De La Rue Appendix Sheets
1913 (1 Jan.) De la Rue 'Appendix A' sheet with seventeen imperforate colour trials affixed showing the approved colour combinations with annotations comprising 1d. colour trials (5) in green, red, purple, bistre and orange and 2½d. trials (12) in bright blue, dull and pale blue, pale and bright blue, black and orange-red, blue and grey, orange-yellow and olive-green, black and violet, green and brown, purple and blue, purple and green, brown and light blue and deep blue and olive-green with annotations alongside and substitutions; the sheet folded at top for display and with collector's type-written notes attached at lower right; superb and rare

Note: On 2nd Feb. 1913 the Postmaster General approved the Colour Scheme of January 1st substituting from Appendix B the schemes shown on A for the 4d., 1/-, 5/- and 10/- and with the 2½d. marked with a cross approved

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

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£7,500

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£4200