Lot 240
c.1890 De La Rue Ink Recipes pages for 1s (SG211), 10s (SG183) & £1 (SG212)




The Phillips Collection of Great Britain | Part III | S24001
Auction: 4 April 2024 at 12:00 BST
£720
Description
c.1890-1900 De La Rue Ink Recipes pages for 1s (SG211), 10s (SG183) & £1 (SG212) English postage, 1d Cape of Good Hope and ½d, 1d, 2d & 2½d Gibraltar postage. All bearing vertical pairs of DLR dummy stamps in the relevant colours as well as ink mixes and annotations. 1s English postage annotations “altered to 2091 a two colour stamp, 10 April 1900” alluding to the new bi-colour issue for SG214. Scarce and unusual.




