1891: Government Notice (203 x 165 mm.) authorising the provisional surcharges on 1st January 1891, the illustrative diagram square
1891: Government Notice (203 x 165 mm.) authorising the provisional surcharges on 1st January 1891, the illustrative diagram square un-printed (unlike the example in Bunt collection) to show how the stamps were to be cut, bearing both halves of the ½ d. on 1 d. claret at lower left; the Notice has been signed by Fred Sheddon Sanguinetti at lower right in his role as Acting Postmaster. Folded as all these Notices are, this example not being folded near the two adhesives. An exceedingly rare sheet with just three recorded. Note: The example in the Bunt collection was missing one bisected stamp, the example in the Ayre collection had full copies of the stamps un-bisected and cancelled by the "F1" obliterator. Provenance: Collection E. A St. Helier Tweney; Cecil Martin (1955); Dr. F. E. Baker; "Stanley" (March 1998); and The ‘Severin’ Collection, Corinphila, April 2012, lot 4145.
