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Auction: 15024 - Western Australia from the Vestey Collection
Lot: 43

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.
Imperforate Unused
Three singles each with four margins and stained by use of brown gum, fine. S.G. 3, £1125

Note: The 4d. value was issued without gum but a supply of gum was available for the Post Office clerks, who applied it to sheets at their leisure, otherwise the public applied the adhesive themselves, a supply being kept on the counter at the post offices. The gum was supplied by Perkins, Bacon; however, some 4d. stamps can be found with a locally made crude brown "blackboy gum" which did stain the stamps.

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