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Auction: 18047 - The Chartwell Collection of Australian States and Commonwealth, an unreserved auction for the benefit of the Chartwell Philanthropic Educational Programme
Lot: 259

(x) Victoria
Half Lengths
Ham Printings
1d. 1st. Printing, orange-vermilion, [k], three good to large margins, design just shaved at left, neatly cancelled with Butterfly "1" and of exceptional lovely bright colour; two filled thins (one very small) not affecting the exceptional appearance of this very rare stamp, one of the first to be printed in Australia. R.P.S. Certificate (1991). S.G. 1, £10,000. Photo

provenance:
Guy Linfield, October 2006

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Sold for
£6,000