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Auction: 25015 - Stamps and Covers of the World
Lot: 3321

(x) Portuguese Colonies
Mozambique Company
1936 (11 May) Waterlow & Sons hand-painted essays for the rejected 2e. design (2 essays), one in red-brown and green and the second in grey-blue and red-brown, both depicting an elephant and with details picked out in Chinese white, cut from the original Waterlow ledger page; superb and rare

Note: These hand-painted essays represent two of the seven essays that were produced for the 2 Escudos value showing different Elephant designs. The 2 Escudos value was issued showing a Greater Kudu not an Elephant.

provenance:
John Sussex, November 1999

Subject to 5% tax on Hammer Price in addition to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium.

Estimate
£500 to £700