Auction 223 - Australia

1900: Anglo-Boer War Patriotic Fund, sheet headed "Queensland Patriotic Stamps / Colour and design approved for 1 d. / Colour but not design approved for 2 d." and showing 1 d. imperforate Proofs in mauve and in violet and adopted Imperforate Proof of 2 d. value in violet; with below "Essays for Colour" and showing the 1 d. value in eleven different colours ranging from bright carmine, through deep blue to yellow-green; addressed in ink to the 'Honourable G. W. Gray, M.L.C., with the Postmaster General's compliments'. The document neatly cut in half, presumably for easier display, and without doubt one of the most charming Proof pages of Australian States recorded.
Catalogue 223: AUSTRALIA & AUSTRALIAN STATES