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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: 505

(x) Australian Commonwealth
The Kangaroo Issues
First Watermark

One Pound
£1 brown and ultramarine, a "JBC" monogram (slightly trimmed) single handstamped "Specimen" (Type A), strong colours, the odd shortish perf otherwise fine mint. Extremely rare. RPSV Certificate (2013). BW 51x/zb, $25,000. Photo

Note: Only a block of six, a strip of three (not corner) with CA monogram and a pair and two singles with JBC monogram handstamped "Specimen" are known.

provenance:
Stuart Hardy, May 2013

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Sold for
£6,500