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Government of India, the original pencil design for the watermark of the Victoria portrait 10 Rupees of 1863, along with 22 early trials for the watermark itself on a variety of different paper stock, and a couple of slightly different designs, all housed in a number of paper folders, dated 1860, and with annotations explaining the contents, some of the papers are folded one or more times, many are exactly as produced, these are the earliest known paper trials for the first Government of India issue, and are extremely important, and are sold here in their entirety, with none held back for later auctions, a superb group (23 papers, 5 folders)
BNB B102, Pick A1 £3,000-£4,000

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Paper and Proofs from the Portals Archives.

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