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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: 458

(x) Australian Commonwealth
The Kangaroo and Map Series Essays
Type 2
1d. carmine-rose in a vertical format with a Kangaroo on map of Australia, no Tasmania, with two value circles at top, imperforate on thin white card, very fine. Unique. A superb essay of the highest quality and importance. B.P.A. Certificate (2012). BW KE11, $100,000. Photo

Note: This vertical format design was determined to be less clustered and better suited to stamp production, but the map of Australia was crudely drawn and the island state of Tasmania was omitted. The Type 2 essay is even rare than the Type 1, as there were five examples in different denominations recorded, although one (a 4d. denomination) was in a private collection stolen in 1984 and it has never been recovered. Of the remaining four, one (a 6d. denomination) is in the R.T.P. Chapman collection, now part of the Australia Post archival collection. Thus, only three examples are left in private hands. The one offered in the next lot and a rouletted ½d. in green.

provenance:
T.E. Field, November 1948
J.A. Kilfoyle, October 1961
Harmers auction, July 1999
Derrick Ray
Prestige auction, April 2006
Hugh Morgan, November 2012

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Sold for
£15,000