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Auction: 15024 - Western Australia from the Vestey Collection
Lot: 301

Western Australia
1861 Printed by Perkins, Bacon & Co.
Perf. 14 at Somerset House
6d. purple-brown handstamped "specimen" (Type GB6), without gum, lower left corner damaged otherwise fine. Very rare. See footnote in the Part 1 after S.G. 46. Photo

Note: The Inland Revenue were only able to process the 1d., 2d. and 4d. values. The 1/- value was returned on January 5 1861, the 6d. on January 8, with notes from Ormond Hill to the effect that they could not be perforated successfully.

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Sold for
£700