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• Auction House:
  Mossgreen
• Sale Name:
  Stamps, Coins & Postal History
• Sale Date:
  10 Dec 2013 ~ 2.30pm
• Lot #:
  1329
• Lot Description:
  P - 1911 Stamp Design Competition entry by E.T. Luke
  1d map of Australia, surmounted by the royal crown and with AUSTRALIA contained in a boomerang-shaped frame; original pen and ink artwork (90 x 116mm) in black on thick artboard (228 x 285mm) with a stamp-size photographic reproduction in black affixed below [BW:E122F]; signed "Haereo" (Luke's nom de plume) at right. Also affixed at the base are five additional stamp-size "Pigmented Gum-Bichromate prints" in different colours, these essays (each unique) depict the artwork complete in wine-red and in four other colours with blank value squares at the top and blank value tablet at base. (BW:E122A-E) This magnificent example of original competition artwork retains Luke's handwritten explanation of his design affixed on the back: "White Australia", the premier island of the world, a dependency of the crown, attached thereto by silken threads, is in direct communication with the Nerve Centres of the Four Quarters of the Globe. The Ribbon fof Postage, capable of easy adjustment and expansion, keeps in due order and co-relation "The Ties that Bind". BW:E61. Cat.$18,000.
• Provenance:
  Arthur Gray 2007; Hugh Morgan
• Estimate:
  A$6,000 - 8,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Numismatics

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