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Auction: 14032 - Australian Commonwealth from the Vestey Collection
Lot: 47

AUSTRALIA
The Kangaroo Issues
Second Watermark
5/- grey and yellow, a "CA" monogram (slightly trimmed) block of eight with interpanneau margin at right, on with Kangaroo's foot broken and pointed tail [L52], fresh and fine mint. Extremely rare and a magnificent exhibition multiple. S.G. 30; BW 43z, $45,500+. Photo

Note: Only nine examples of the CA monogram are recorded, this being the largest recorded multiple.

provenance:
T.E. Field, November 1948
J.A. Kilfoyle, October 1961
Spink auction, May 2005
Hugh Morgan, November 2012

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Sold for
£14,000