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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: 270

(x) Victoria
Half Lengths
Covers
1854 (23 Mar.) Melbourne town entire (no side flaps) to the Treasury, bearing Campbell & Co. 1d. orange-red, [8], with good to large margins and cancelled with Barred Oval "1", despatch oval datestamp alongside; very fine. Rod Perry Certificate (2007). S.G. 23. Photo

Note: Fifteen covers are recorded bearing this shade, of which only two pay the 1d. Town letter rate

provenance:
Guy Linfield, October 2006
Gary Diffen, November 2007

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Sold for
£3,800