$4.00 Gray Black, Original Artist's Composite Model for Complete Design (244-E6). On 50 x 39mm thick artist's card with beveled edges, from second state of the die showing partially engraved vignette and lettering only, with black watercolor of all additional elements including space between portraits and shading on frame elements surrounding portraits and at edges, frame slightly taller than adopted size

VERY FINE. THE UNIQUE WATERCOLOR ESSAY FOR THE $4.00 COLUMBIAN ISSUE. THIS IS THE ONLY WATERCOLOR ESSAY FOR ANY OF THE DOLLAR-VALUE COLUMBIANS. A REMARKABLE ESSAY.

Other dollar-value Columbians are known with pencil sketches or with elements mounted into place. The watercolor offered here was painstakingly produced to be faithful to the finished design, and must have been a very early essay for the design of the frame. It is faithful to the design as accepted -- the triangles at corners below the portraits, the light and dark shading areas at sides, the small unengraved areas at top and the darker engraved area below the bottom label and other elements of the finished design are all shown here in watercolor.

Ex Brazer, Rosenthal and Fekete.

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