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Auction: 15024 - Western Australia from the Vestey Collection
Lot: 360

Western Australia
Printed by De La Rue & Co. Ltd.
1864-79 Watermark Crown CC, Perf. 12½
Issued Stamps
4d. carmine, variety doubly printed, unused with part original gum. A fine example of this dramatic printing error and a major exhibition showpiece of one of the rarest stamps of Western Australia with only a few examples recorded, all being unused. B.P.A. Certificate (2007). S.G. 56a, £30,000. Photo

provenance:
T.A. Hall, October 1964
John Gartner, April 1979
"Austin", May 1985

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Sold for
£12,000