Lot No. 1054
Perkins Bakon Ink Recipe of Paper (122x122mm) marked ”Fugitive Oil Colours”, bearing New South Wales Diadem lower value type colour guide trials, each with ”postage2 and value tablets blank, and with lower left corner waxed over, eight examples in reddish purple, pale orange, purple brown (2), dull vermillion, violett, blue (value tablet cut off) and purple, Diadem 6 d trial proofs (3) each with waxed corner, in deep green, dull green (badly cut-into) and vermillion (cut to shape) and Trinidat 1859 imperf 6d. deep green (cut-into or touched in two sides); the piece with creases and other faults. A highly important group, particularly brearing the Trinidat 6 d. which is a major rarity in unused condition (catalogued at GBP 12,000 by Stanley Gibbons) (MS)
