£4,100
1901 Card (139x82mm) headed "DESIGNS FOR STAMPS / FROM / THE UNIVERSAL KEY PLATES" and dated "May 20th, 1901", bearing photographic proofs with blank value/country tablets of KEVII "Postage Postage", "Postage & Revenue" and "Revenue Revenue" Key Plate designs, below which appear the printed explanation "The UNIVERSAL KEY PLATES consist of a "POSTAGE" PLATE, a "POSTAGE AND REVENUE" PLATE, and a "REVENUE" PLATE. The same duty Overprint Plates are available for use with all the three Key Plates. A Colony having a duty Plate can therefore have "POSTAGE", "POSTAGE AND REVENUE" or "REVENUE" stamps from the same Duty Plate". An important item, from the Robson Lowe auction of "The De La Rue Key Plates" (15 Nov. 1979, lot 2129a) where it sold for £750. Photo included on Back Cover.
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