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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: 498

(x) Australian Commonwealth
The Kangaroo Issues
First Watermark
Ten Shillings
10/- die proof in purple on white wove paper (83x105mm.) which has been folded twice, a superb impression. A key item in any Kangaroo collection. BW 47DP(1)C, $60,000. Photo

Note: These die proofs come from the estate of Samuel Reading, the engraver, and are impressed on scrap paper, often folded so that albino impressions show through the folds. Six examples are recorded, one in black, two in grey and three in purple. One of the last is in the R.T.P. Chapman collection, now part of the Australia Post archival collection.

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Sold for
£9,000