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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: 623

(x) Australian Commonwealth
The Kangaroo Issues
Official Stamps
Third Watermark - Perforated "OS"
£1 chestnut and bright blue with watermark sideways and showing break in right frame 10mm. from top, thin spot at foot and hinge remnants, otherwise fine mint. Unique. One of the great Australia Commonwealth rarities. RPSV Certificate (2013). S.G. O52ab, £160,000; BW 52Bab/b. Photo

Note: This stamp is from the Cooke printing. One unused (punctured OS) example is known, and about a dozen used examples.

provenance:
Stuart Hardy, May 2013

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Sold for
£45,000