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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: 611

(x) Australian Commonwealth
The Kangaroo Issues
C of A Watermark
Two Pounds
£2 black and rose overprinted "specimen" (Type D), a complete forme of thirty from the upper right plate, showing break in lower frame under "n" of "pounds", broken coast in Bight, white scratch through kangaroo's back, white flaw in Bight, rat-faced kangaroo and "muzzled" kangaroo, fine mint, mostly unmounted. Rare, only four intact formes of thirty are recorded. BW 58xb, $20,000. Photo

provenance:
Australia Post archives
Arthur Gray, February 2007

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Sold for
£3,500