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Auction: 12021 - The Chartwell Collection - GB Line-Engraved Essays, Proofs, Stamps and Covers - Part IV
Lot: 13

Great Britain
Pre-Stamp Essays
1839 Treasury Competition
Charles Whiting: The complete page from the 1843 Arts Journal featuring the embossed 2paid" head in pink, essays number 25 and 26 in red and blue plus the fancy engine-turned design surrounded by an elaborate colourless relief vase design with various floral motifs within a green, engine-turned frame; the reverse with an elaborate design printed in green and red, "printed by/charles whiting/for protection against/forgery". There is a heavy horizontal fold which has caused some splitting at left plus a second fold at foot; fresh

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£500