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Auction: 15024 - Western Australia from the Vestey Collection
Lot: 42

Western Australia
1854-55 Four Pence Blue
This value, produced by lithography, was made up from positions [16-240] of the 1d. value repeated four times to make up a sheet of 240. Only the central part of the design was used, the octagonal frame being added afterwards.
There were two printings, the first made from Stone 1 before the 1st August 1854. The inverted frame and the rare squeezed transfer varieties are found on this printing. A second printing, from a New Stone (Stone 2) was made in December 1855 and used a wholly different set of 240 impressions, although the same intermediate stone was employed for both.
Proof
[38] of the intermediate stone in black with offset of the 1/- on reverse. Photo

provenance:
Frank Chadwick, May 1978
E.R. Slade Slade, November 1979
"Austin", May 1985

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£2,800