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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: 633

(x) Australian Commonwealth
Unissued 2d. and 1/- Engraved, 1914
1/- single-line perf 11 plate proof in brown-purple on unwatermarked wove paper, a minor hinge remainder otherwise very fine. One of the most important items of Australian Commonwealth philately. Michael Drury Certificate (2015). BW 62PP(1)A, $125,000. Photo

Note: Only two examples are known, one of which is in the R.T.P. Chapman collection, now part of the Australia Post archival collection.

provenance:
Agar Wynne
Herbert McNess
Arthur Gray, October 2015

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Sold for
£15,000