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Auction: 26024 - The 'Mulberry' Collection of Great Britain King Edward VII Issues
Lot: 2003

Great Britain
King Edward VII
Proofs and Essays
Pull from an engraved sketch of the head in side profile set in an oval frame, showing the borders of the rectangular printing plate, this with the engraved initial "E.F." of Emil Fuchs, and the surrounding selvage paper signed in full by him "Emil Fuchs". Very fine and rare, it is thought only ten examples signed by Fuchs survive

Notes: The King made clear his preference for the Fuchs design over those prepared by the printers, and this would eventually be used for the final portrait. Much discussion was had over the direction of the head as can be seen from an extract of a 1901 (12 Feb.) letter from the Inland Revenue to George H. Murray housed by the Postal Museum:

"“the Board would suggest that the practice usually adopted with the coinage of reversing the profile on a change of reign […] need not be followed in the case of stamps. It appears to the Board that the profile looking to the left has advantages which render its adoption desirable, viz:- (1) that it does not seem to look out of the envelope to which the stamp is affixed”

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Estimate
£600 to £800

Starting price
£420