3 rd classicphil Auction - VIENNA- AUSTRIA

Tasmania, 1855-58, 1 d., black, single presentation ESSAY, reinstated with name VAN DIEMENSLAND omitted by waxing to void the imprint of the country name, after that the top of the oval pattern was placed instead (small double impression of the pattern at upper left and right), on thick white card, 43 x 50 mm, listed in ROBSON LOW/Volume IV/page 169/(iii), a desirable and magnificent rarity from Perkins Bacon produced on demand between 1855 and 1858, listed by RL under the 1858 issue thus, for sure used for presentation reasons to receive further orders from other colonies by selling the same sujet/subject, there are 2 others known in public, which differs a little from each other, see the illustration of THE BESCANCON COLLECTION/Corinphila, Nov. 2017, lot 6309 on page 102, coloured versions of this essay are reprints by De La Rue 1870 for the Paris exhibition printed on normal paper, ex Dale-Lichtenstein and Sato, SUP!. Estimate 12.000€.
Estimate €12000