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Auction: 15024 - Western Australia from the Vestey Collection
Lot: 163

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
1860 envelope from Bunbury to USA, bearing 1/- pale brown with good to large margins, in combination with 1860 2d. orange-vermilion with good to large margins, both cancelled "18", showing red crayon "8", legible despatch c.d.s., London Paid transit c.d.s. in red (20.5), "5/n. york am pkt" c.d.s. (4.6) additionally tying the adhesives, handstruck "5" and "16/cents" accountancy h.s. in red. Most attractive and a very rare mixed-issue franking to an unusual destination. B.P.A. Certificate (2007). S.G. 4c, 25. Photo

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