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Auction: 14033 - The Leeward Islands, Bahamas and Turks Islands from the Vestey Collection
Lot: 582

Turks and Caicos Islands
1900-08 Badge of the Islands Issue
Perforated Colour Trials
"Appendix A" sheet (172x309mm., divided into two parts to fit album pages) dated " June 27th 1900", bearing eleven ½d. and four 2/- colour trials with ½d. in blue-green, in carmine, in purple and in greenish brown for the ½d., 1d., 6d. and 1/- values crossed through and replaced by the issued colour; the three ½d. trials for the 2d., 2½d. and 4d. values in the accepted colours and the 2/- in indigo and in orange for the 2/- and 3/- values similarly crossed through and replaced by the issued colours, the whole marked "Approved WHM 20.7"; vertical crease affects the accepted ½d. and 1d. trials. A magnificent showpiece. Photo

provenance:
De La Rue Archives, February 1979

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£4,000