Natal 1874-99 QV 3d Day Book Working Die Proof

1874-99 Stampsize cut down working DIE PROOF of the QV 3d (SG 68) in black on glazed card, Traces of peripheral heat soiling source this proof to that group of Natal proofs originally salvaged from the 1940 bombing of De La Rue's Bunhill Row works (which were destroyed in the ensuing fire). Ex De La Rue archives.