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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: 495

(x) Australian Commonwealth
The Kangaroo Issues
First Watermark
Five Shillings
5/- grey and yellow, a "JBC" monogram single, superb colours and freshness, hinge remainder at top, fine. A major monogram rarity. B.P.A. Certificate (2012). BW 42zc, $35,000. Photo

Note: Brusden White record a total of ten JBC monogram pieces; three mint strips of three (one in the Royal Collection) and five mint singles (one in the R.T.P. Chapman collection, now part of the Australia Post archival collection), a c.t.o. block of four and two c.t.o. singles.

provenance:
Millennium Philatelic Auctions sale, October 2003
Hugh Morgan, November 2012

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Sold for
£5,500