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Auction: 14032 - Australian Commonwealth from the Vestey Collection
Lot: 105

AUSTRALIA
King George V Heads
Perkins Bacon Die Proofs
1d. State 3, King's nose is straight, in carmine-red on thin glazed card (124x92mm.), marked "3rd State, a copy handed by me to Mr Bacon for His Majesty 3.3.14" and initialled "SB" (Seymour Bennett) and showing Perkins, Bacon and Co. h.s. on reverse. The only recorded example. BW 70DP(13)Bb, $17,500. Photo

provenance:
James B. Williamson, September 1981
"Altmann", November 1984

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Sold for
£6,500