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Auction: 25026 - Stamps and Covers of Africa Featuring the 'Protea' Collection of South Africa
Lot: 1452

South Africa
1913-24 King's Head Issue
Booklets
Archival page from the De la Rue archives headed 'annexure 'd' with affixed at top, severed front and back covers and inside postal rates interleaves of the 1905 Cape of Good Hope booklet, below this photographic reproductions of hand drawn sketches of a Union of South Africa 2/6d. booklet cover and three other pages; superb and unique

Note: The page shows how the design of the first South African booklet was copied from that of the Cape of Good Hope booklet and also that a booklet with the Rhodesian advertisement on the reverse is the first issued.

provenance:
Africa in Switzerland, Robson Lowe, October 1976

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Sold for
£2,600

Starting price
£2400