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Auction: 15024 - Western Australia from the Vestey Collection
Lot: 82

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 Covers
1855 (19 Dec.) entire to London, marked "Per Siren to Singapore" and "Overland via Marseilles", bearing 1d. black horizontal pair with clear to large margins and showing portion of adjoining stamp at lower left and 4d. blue with small to large margins (small defects at foot), both tied by void obliterator, showing "1/3" rate marking and "post office/Crown/guildford/western australia" oval h.s. with arrival c.d.s.(28.4) on reverse. An attractive franking. B.P.A. Certificate (2007). S.G. 1, 3a. Photo

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