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Auction: 15024 - Western Australia from the Vestey Collection
Lot: 162

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.
Imperforate Covers
1857 entire to Sydney, marked "p Messenger", bearing 1/- pale red-brown with good to large margins, centrally cancelled "14" and showing "post office/Crown/albany/western australia" oval h.s., both in red-brown, and showing "ship letter/sydney" arrival c.d.s. (1.4) on reverse; the 1/- has been lifted and replaced. Holcombe Certificate (1988). Photo

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