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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: 504

(x) Australian Commonwealth
The Kangaroo Issues
First Watermark
One Pound
£1 die proof in grey on white wove paper (42x50mm.), lovely impression, a touch of soiling at lower right otherwise fine. Extremely rare and a major showpiece. BW 51DP(1)A, $50,000. 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. Five examples are recorded, two in grey and three in purple. One of each is in the R.T.P. Chapman collection, now part of the Australia Post archival collection.

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Sold for
£19,000