Auction 321 - 332 Australian States & Commonwealth of Australia, New South Wales, St. Helena, Basutoland The ‘BESANÇON’ Collection - Day 2

1931: Air Mail, three pages ex the De La archives, each page (151 x 258 mm.) bearing two vertical columns of five Imperforate Colour Trials, all with black Value Tablets, the left hand columns with vignettes in black and the right with brown vignettes; the Trials all in differing colours and annotations in ink to the proposed values, each signed off at base by P.W. Urben, Controller of the Posts & Telegraphs Service in Khartoum, on 19 May 1931, whilst on leave in England; and also annotated in his hand with the values indicated alongside each Trial. The reverse of the second page with printed notation similar to the above and De La Rue's oval handstamp in violet. Illustrated in "The De La Rue Collection edited by Frank Walton RDP on pages 6168 and 6169. A wonderfully spectacular set of Essays for the connoisseur of both Airmail issues of the world and of Sudan in particular.rnrnProvenance: Collection Col. J.R. Danson, Robson Lowe, Geneva, 29 April 1977, lot 788 and in Col. E.H. Hebbert sale, 10 Nov 1977, lot 2163.