1887 5d Purple & Blue Die Proofs and Striking Book Pieces

Head Plate

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Date: 12 Aug 1886 Inscribed: Before Hardening		1) Phillips Collection2) Ex Aureum; SG Time Auction Nov 2020 lot 384 sold £280+20% 3)
Date: 13 Aug 1886 Inscribed: After Hardening
Date: 20 Nov 1887 Inscribed: Before Hardening and initialled “G.F.S.” in manuscript		1) Phillips Collection
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Duty Die No.5 (known as die I)

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Date: 12 Aug 86 Inscribed: Before Hardening
Date: 13 Aug 86 Inscribed: Before Hardening		1) Phillips Collection2) Pictured. Ex Aureum 3) Ex Aureum
Date: None		Ex Aureum; SG Timed Auction Nov 2020 lot 383 sold £280+20%
Cut down to stamp size		1

Duty Die No.6 (known as die II)

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Date: 9 Nov 86 Inscribed: Before Hardening with manuscript “2nd Die”		1) Phillips Collection
Date: 9 Nov 86 Inscribed: Before Hardening		1) Ex Aureum
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Setting of the Marginal Rules

Set of two sunken die proofs, the head plate proof endorsed “DIVISION LEAD OF THE INNER LINE” with marginal line in black set close and the duty plate proof endorsed “DIVISION LEAD OF THE OUTER LINE” with marginal line in black set wide. Both dated “August 19th 87” and initialled “WWD” (William Warren De La Rue). Believed to be a unique set of instructions to the composing room for the divisional leads of the marginal rules

Ex Stothert & “Aureum”

Striking Book Pieces

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Date: Oct 86
Date: Oct 27 86
Date: 16 Dec 86Note: Actually die I		Ex Aureum
Date: 1 Feb 87		Ex Aureum; Spink Jul 2017 lot 2505 est £2000-2500 unsold (SG was vendor); 2017-2020: SG £2’250
Date: 10-21 Jan 1888		Ex Aureum; 2020 SG £1’750
Date: 21 Jan to 13 Feb 1888 Inscribed: Before Hardening		Ex Aureum; SG Timed Auction Nov 2020 lot 385 sold £360+20%
Date: May 1890		Ex Harmers International, Fall 2023, lot 640