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Auction: 15024 - Western Australia from the Vestey Collection
Lot: 363

Western Australia
Printed by De La Rue & Co. Ltd.
1864-79 Watermark Crown CC, Perf. 12½
Issued Stamps
6d. violet, variety doubly printed which is very pronounced in the upper half, lightly cancelled "6" (Albany); straight-edge at right and with thin spot at foot. One of the rarest stamps of Western Australia with only three examples known in private hands, all being used. B.P.A. Certificate (2007). S.G. 57a, £22,000. Photo

provenance:
M. Ferrari, April 1923
Plumridge auction, November 1928
Warwick and Warwick auction, May 1980
Mike Brachi

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Estimate
£12,000 to £15,000