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Auction: 14032 - Australian Commonwealth from the Vestey Collection
Lot: 205

AUSTRALIA
King George V Commemorative Issues
1934 (July-Aug.) Centenary of Victoria
2d. die proof in red on thick white wove paper (113x75mm.) marked "24 FM 30/4/34" and, on reverse, "Approved but please check heights of flagstaff they look proportionately too high", initialled "H.P.B." (Sir Harry P. Brown, Director of Posts and Telegraphs) and dated "4.5.34"; some small marginal pin marks. Also a photograph used for the design of the stamps, marked on reverse, "Copy of original photograph included in Centenary Stamp. John Ash 1934". Superb. BW 151DP(1), $20,000. Photo

Note: Only one other 2d. die proof is recorded, in dark purple, and is in the R.T.P. Chapman collection, now part of the Australia Post archival collection.

provenance:
John Ash
James B. Williamson, September 1981

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Sold for
£13,000