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Auction: 15024 - Western Australia from the Vestey Collection
Lot: 457

Western Australia
Printed by De La Rue and Co. Ltd.
1885 (May) "1d." on 3d. Surcharge
Trial? Surcharge
Thick "1" with slanting top, a pale brown block of four with the surcharge double in pale yellow and pale green, with part to large part original gum, heavily folded along perfs and with heavy hinge remnants at top, otherwise fine. Very rare, there is a pair with similar surcharge in the Royal Collection and a single in the Slade Slade and Hiscock collections. Photo

provenance:
John Gartner, April 1979
Mike Brachi

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Sold for
£2,900