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Auction: 25027 - Stamps and Covers of Great Britain
Lot: 2210

(x) Great Britain
Line Engraved Proofs and Essays
"Rainbow" Trials
State 2/3: Complete sheet of twelve (4x3) in deep, dull blue on thin wove paper inscribed "K New Colour Nov. 20" in Bacon's hand; some hinges on reverse otherwise fine and a rare piece.

Notes: Rowse records this as one of a series of trials produced between 20-23 Nov. 1840 in a "Penultimate Effort to Find Ink for the 2d.". Illustrated in "Rainbow Trials", page 157

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