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Auction: 19039 - The 'Bartica' Collection of British Guiana Ship Type Issues
Lot: 169

(x) British Guiana
1889 (Sept.) Keyplate Issue
Die Proofs
Master with blank country name and value tablets, stamp-size in black on glazed card and affixed to De La Rue day book piece (54x60mm.) marked "Oct 30 120 leads" and further in red ink "repeat plate Dec 2/96". The only die proof for Plate 3 recorded. See article in London Philatelist, July 2007. Photo

provenance:
De La Rue Archives, April 1976
"Foxley", March 2014

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Sold for
£520