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Auction: 15024 - Western Australia from the Vestey Collection
Lot: 122

Western Australia
1854-55 One Shilling Brown
This value, like the 4d., was produced by lithography and was made up from positions [10-234] which incidentally contained the two re-entries, [170] and [171], of the 1d. value repeated four times to make up a sheet of 240. Only the swan portion of the design was used, the oval frame with blank corners being added later.
There were four printings of the 1/- value, July 1854, January 1855, October 1855 and November-December 1855. It is considered that the salmon and red-brown shades from the first printing, the grey-brown shades from the second printing, the pale brown shades from the last two printings.
Proof
In black with offset of 4d. on reverse, close to large margins, fine. Photo

provenance:
Frank Chadwick, May 1978

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