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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: 466

(x) Australian Commonwealth
The Kangaroo Issues
First Watermark
Half Penny
½d. green, a lower right corner block of twelve with "JBC" monogram, variety imperforate between stamps and margin at foot, fresh and fine mint. An impressive multiple of this rare error. B.P.A. Certificate (2012). BW 1b, $60,000. Photo

Note: The first strike of perforating comb was omitted on four Plate 2 (Lower) sheets. One left pane (with CA monogram) and three right panes (with JBC monogram) remain intact as blocks of twelve. One JBC block is in the Royal Collection, and another is in the Vickery collection at the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney.

provenance:
Harmers auction, February 1979
Hugh Morgan, November 2012

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Sold for
£21,000