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Auction: 26020 - The Dr. Jon Higgins Collection of Labuan Queen's Heads and The Paul Barsdell Collection of Sarawak
Lot: 2

Labuan
1879 (May) Watermark CA over Crown, Sideways
Plate Proofs
2c. in green, a sheet of ten (5x2) pulled from the original die, on thin surfaced card marked "534/1", fine. Extremely rare, two others recorded. Photo

Note: The 2c. was the first adhesive produced by De La Rue from a recess-engraved plate.


provenance:

De La Rue archives, Robson Lowe, September 1976, part Lot 783

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Estimate
£6,000 to £8,000