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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: 521

(x) Australian Commonwealth
The Kangaroo Issues
Second Watermark
Five Shillings
5/- grey and yellow, a pair with "CA" monogram (slightly trimmed), good colours, a few shortish perfs at top right, fine mint. Very rare. BW 43za, $35,000. Photo

Note: Of the "CA" monogram only a mint strip of three in the Royal Collection, a mint block of eight (not left corner), six mint pairs (one is in the R.T.P. Chapman collection, now part of the Australia Post archival collection) and a mint single have been recorded.

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Sold for
£9,500