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Auction: 18013 - The Brian Brookes Collection of St. Kitts-Nevis
Lot: 406

St. Christopher
Revenue Stamps
1884 (22 Apr.) piece of paper (160x210mm.) entitled "Scheme of Proposed Colours", bearing Revenue stamps (4) with blank value tablet in rose, in mauve, in orange-brown and in olive with "1d", "3d", "6d" and "1/-" written alongside, each initialled and value tablet ticked, the 1d. marked "Same colour as St Kitts and Nevis 1d Postage Stamp", the 3d. and 1/- "Proposed colour - there are no 3d (or 1/-) Postage Stamps either in St Kitts or Nevis" and the 6d. "Same colour as settled upon for the 6d. Nevis Postage Stamps - see scheme attached to Messers Tho De La Rue & Co's letter of August 1st 1883". Photo

provenance:
De La Rue archives, January 1978

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