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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: 605

(x) Australian Commonwealth
The Kangaroo Issues
C of A Watermark
Five Shillings
5/- grey and yellow, a top left corner block of twenty-four (6x4) with interpanneau margin at right, showing broken coast near Sydney, white line adjacent to coast in Bight, broken coast near Sydney and Spencer's Gulf elongated, ewe-faced kangaroo, coloured flaw at front edge of grass and hunched-back kangaroo, extremely fresh unmounted mint. RPSV Certificate (2013). S.G. 135, £4080; BW 46, $36,000. Photo

provenance:
Stuart Hardy, May 2013

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Sold for
£8,500