The De LA Rue Stamps Of New South Wales

Hi Bobby De La Rue;
I've just returned here after a few years absent and found your fantastic monograph. I've been browsing De La Rue correspondence in the Australian National Library/Trove and found the attached document dated Oct 1867 apparently mailed to De La Rue on 110 BunHill Rd. contra your note in monograph Introduction "In 1874 they opened their London premises at Bunhill Row".

Document specs:
Records of Re La Rue Company Ltd (as filmed by the AJCP)
[microform]:[M1136-1153, 1865-1946./Series. Correspondence Books/Subseries II/File Vol. A/Item f. 31/Victoria, Queensland (10 pp.) image 1


The forum flags me as a newbie so I cannot email you about this. I would sorely like to trade notes on De La Rue.
Bill

Hi Bill,

Very well spotted! If there are better eyes in the world than stamp collectors/philatelists/postal historians I'd be very surprised.

What I should've said was "In 1874 they opened their new London premises at Bunhill Row"

The company had been at Bunhill Row since 1834.

Fairdinkumstamps asked the above question on 21 February 2023, to which I replied the following day.

This turned up in a collection I've been breaking down. Previously unrecorded on a De La Rue stamp

The stamp is a London print, perf. 14, SG188 or Scott 46a, and issued 25 March 1862, 19 days after White's last known date of use of the cancellation.

Must get to that optometrist's appointment......

The stamp above is a rideout '3' cancellation, the second I'm aware of.

Thank you very much for sharing that rare find, Bobby De La Rue!