Lot 50
1884-1888 complete "Before and After the...
The Royal Palm Collection of Great Britain | 5940
Auction: 25 October 2022 at 01:00 BST
£9,500
Description
1884-1888 complete "Before and After the Stamp Committee" Presentation Book. Original binding and three card pages with sunk-mounted stamps, the pages separated to facilitate display. The first page headed "Series Superseded by the Issue of April 1884." comprising line-perforated 14 Imprimaturs including the two key values of 9d straw, Plate 5 and 1/- purple, Plate 14 plus 1880 ½d - 5d provisional issue, 1881 1d lilac 16 Dots, 1881 2½d blue Plate 22, 3d rose Plate 21 and 4d grey-brown Plate 18. The second page is headed "Series Issued April, 1884." comprising 1883 ½d - 1/- with printed details of
Committee and De La Rue officials on the reverse. The third page is headed "Series Determined Upon by the Stamp Committee and Issued January, 1887.", comprising the 1887 Jubilee original eleven values from ½d - 1/-. A very rare complete book, ex Manzi, Baillie and Bertsimas
