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Auction: 17022 - The Philatelic Collector's Series Sale featuring The Ronnie Winchester Collection and fine sections of Belgium, Cape of Good Hope Rectangular Issues and Griqualand West
Lot: 1260

Cape of Good Hope
The Rectangular Issues
1891 (Mar.) 2½d. Provisional
Essays
2½d. essay comprising master die proof in black on glazed card (31x35mm.) over which a large "2½d" value tablet and scroll work in the value tablet has been hand-painted, affixed to card (77x87mm.) marked "A", dated "feb 17 91" and with red initials at foot. Photo

provenance:
De La Rue archives, October 1976

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Sold for
£1,700