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Auction: 7028 - British Empire Stamps & Covers
Lot: 1026

Australia Postage Due Stamps — 10/- dull green with variety watermark inverted (as always), neatly cancelled with small part c.d.s. in violet; tiny wrinkles at top and with two small blue marks below value. An attractive example of this extremely rare and seldom offered stamp, of which only a handful of examples are recorded. Brandon Certificate (2007). S.G. D61, £15,000. Photo Estimate £ 6,000-8,000 Note: The BW catalogue states that this value was issued only in Sydney, that no examples were cancelled-to-order for presentation purposes or collectors´ sets, and that usage was "extremely limited"

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£4,500