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lot # 181 - europa grossbritannien

Thursday Jun 13, 2019 08:30 Europe/Zurich

1873 SPECIMENS OF STAMPS MANUFACTURED BY THOS. DE LA RUE & Co., LONDON, the stunning and spectacular volume in tooled red leather with brown, green, blue and gold tooling, endorsed in manuscript on fly-leaf "To Mr. Chazal, with the compliments of the manufacturers, June 21st '73" in ink, with the first page headed ENGLISH / Postage and showing 1867/73 3 d. rose pl. 10, 4 d. vermilion pl. 13, 6 d. grey pl. 12, 9 d. straw pl. 4, 10 d. red-brown pl. 1, 1 s. green pl. 7, 2 s. blue pl. 1 and 5 s. rose pl. 1 wmk. Maltese Cross; headed "Receipt" with Inland Revenue 1 d. lilac, 3 d. lilac and 6 d. lilac; Foreign Bill 1 d. lilac, 1 s. green and £ 1 deep lilac; Chancery Court 3 d. lilac on blued, Chancery Fee Fund - Ireland £ 2 lilac, Common Law Court 1 d., 6 d., 1 s., 2 s., 5 s., 10 s. and £ 1 deep lilac; Admiralty Court 1 s. lilac; Admiralty Court-Ireland 6 d. pale blue & lilac; Probate Court Fee 3 d. blue; Matrimonial Cause Fee 6 d. blue; Companies Registration 4 d., 6 d., 1 s., 5 s. and £ 1 lilac; Petty Sessions-Ireland 6 d. green; Dog License-Ireland 2 s. mauve; Unappropriated 1 d. lilac, 1 s. green and £ 1 lilac; Appropriated 1 d. lilac, 1 s. green and £ 1 lilac; all these overprinted CANCELLED (Type 14A) in black; thereafter with Postal Stationery ½ d. card, 1 d. pink env. and ½ d. green wrapper; followed by INDIA Postage 8 p. mauve, ½ a. blue, 4 a. green and 6 a. 8 p. slate; Official ½ a. blue, 1 a. brown, 2 a. orange, 4 a. green, 6 a. 8 p. slate and 8 a. carmine optd. 'Service' and SPECIMEN (Type D10) in black; India Receipt ½ a. and 1 a. lilac; Revenue 1 a. mauve, Customs 1 a. bright blue; Share Transfer 1 a. lilac & red and 1 r. lilac & red; Court Fee 2 a. orange, 1 r. blue-green and 10 r. blue-green; Foreign Bill values (15) from 2 annas to 24 rupees printed in lilac; Telegraph values (11) from 2 a. to 28 r. green and 50 r. rose in various colours; Foreign Papers 1 a. lilac, 1 r. rose, 100 r. lilac and 1'000 r. red; High Court 1 a. lilac & red; Small Cause Court 1 a. orange-brown & black; all the India with SPECIMEN in various sizes in black; CAPE OF GOOD HOPE Postage 4 d. blue, Stamp Duty 2 d. lilac, Revenue 12 s. 6 d. and £ 2 lilac; CEYLON 1872 issue 2 c. brown, 4 c. grey, 8 c. orange, 16 c. pale violet, 24 c. green, 36 c. blue, 48 c. rose and 96 c. drab all Imperforate; Stamp Duty values (13) from 5 c. to 100 rupees perf. in various colours; Warehouse Warrant 1 s. brownish red; Receipt 5 c. lilac; 2 c. postal stationery cards perforated SPECIMEN (two); HONG KONG 1864 Postage 24 c. green, Stamp Duty Fiscal 2 c. grey, 3 c. orange, 25 c. green, 30 c. brown, 50 c. pale lilac, $ 1 blue, $ 2 olive-green, $ 3 dull violet and $ 10 rose-carmine; MAURITIUS 2 d. blue, Internal Revenue 3 d. blue, Bills of Exchange 1 d. green & violet in a strip of three, STRAITS SETTLEMENTS Postage 1867 2 c. brown, 4 c. rose, 6 c. lilac, 8 c. orange, 12 c. pale blue, 24 c. green, 30 c. claret, 32 c. pale red and 96 c. grey; Receipt 3 c. lilac; Marine Policies 24 c. blue & violet; Foreign Bill 18 c. lialc & red; Judicial 50 c. brown & violet; JAMAICA Postage 1870 ½ d. claret, 1 d. blue (imperforate), 2 d. rose, 3 d. green, 4 d. orange, 6 d. lilac and 1 s. brown this last optd. SPECIMEN in black; Receipt 1 s. rose, 5 c. lilac and 10 s. green optd SPECIMEN; BERMUDA Postage 1865 1 d. rose, 2 d. blue, 6 d. mmauve and 1 s. green; BRITISH HONDURAS Postage 1872 1 d. blue 3 d. red-brown Imperforate, 6 d. rose and 1 s. green; BAHAMAS 1863 1 s. green Imperforate; VANCOUVER ISLAND 1865 Postage 5 c. rose and 10 c. blue; BRITISH COLOMBIA 1865 Postage 3 d. blue; MALTA 1863 ½ d. orange-yellow; SIERRA LEONE 1859 6 d. dull purple and 1872 4 d. blue Imperforate; NEW SOUTH WALES 1867 4d. red-brown Imperforate, 6 d. green on glazed card paper imperforate; 10 d. lilac imperforate; Stamp Duty bicoloured values (18, all imperforate) from 4 d. to £ 1; BELGIUM Postage 1865 10 c. rose, 20 c. green, 30 c. brown-purple, 40 c. pale blue and 1 fr. brown-violet all Imperforate; PORTUGAL 'Letra de Cambio' 50 r. to 1'000 r. blue (5), 'Imposto do Sello' 20 r. to 1'000 r. lilac (5), ITALY with De La Rue 1 c.-1 lire values (8) optd. SAGGIO in black; Passport 1 l. green and 2 l. lilac optd SAGGIO; 'Marca Da Bollo' Imperforate glazed card Die Proofs in violet for 5 c., 50 c., 1 l., 1 l. 20 c., 2 l. and 4 l.; large format 'Marca Da Bollo' values (15 c. to 5 lire) in violet and 10 l. and 15 l. in lilac & red all Imperforate ootd. SAGGIO; Miscellaneous Proofs of Postal Stationery embossed cut-outs from Mauritius (5), Ceylon (3) and Uruguay (2); CEYLON glazed card Die Proofs for 8 c., 16 c., 24 c. and 96 c. in issued colours; Stamp Duty glazed white card Proofs for 10 c., 15 c., 20 c., 25 c., 1 r., 10 r. and 20 r. in colours; ITALY 1863 glazed white card Proofs for 1863 5 c. in green, 10 c. in orange, 15 c. blue, 40 c. carmine (rubbed) and 60 c. lilac; CHILE with 2 c. and 5 c. postal stationery cards perf. SPECIMEN, postal stationery envelopes 2 c., 5 c., 10 c. 20 c. and 25 c. perf. SPECIMEN. Full scans of this volume can be seen on the Corinphila website. A wonderful presentation book housed in a hand crafted wooden box probably also provided by De La Rue, safe to say that this describer has not seen another example of this volume in his 46 years in the philatelic business.rnrnNote: It is interesting that Perkins, Bacon allegedly lost their contract due to the "Cancelled" overprints on classic British Commonwealth issues provided to the Hill family, yet De La Rue managed to keep their contract whilst providing a book of this nature to a presumably valued customer.
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