Corinphila Auction 291-297 Day 2

Chalons 1860: Perkins Bacon Master Die Proof for the 1 d., Final State of the completed Die, engraved in black on thin India paper (39 x 48 mm.) with small central horizontal guide lines. Illustrated in the Robson Lowe Encyclopædia, Vol. IV, page 95. Exceptional and of great rarity.rnProvenance: RL, London, 16 March 1960, ex lot 286; Collection Ron Butler RDP., Spink, London, 22 Sept 2004, lot 1146.