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Auction: 15024 - Western Australia from the Vestey Collection
Lot: 70

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 Used - Pale Blue
Two singles, one with good to large margin and showing marginal letters of watermark at foot, the other with mainly large margins, both lightly cancelled in blue, fine. S.G. 3, £400

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