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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: 731

(x) Australian Commonwealth
Queen Elizabeth II
1953 (Feb.) Produce Food 3d. green and 3½d. scarlet die proofs in se-tenant strips of three on white wove paper and mounted in sunken cards, fine. Eight sets of die proofs were produced for presentation purposes. Both are numbered "2" and presented to H.L. Anthony, the Postmaster-General. BW 287-292DP(1), $18,000. Photo

Note: As original die proofs do not exist for these stamps, these proofs, although issued in the series of presentation die proofs and generally referred to as such, must in fact be plate proofs cut from imperforate sheets.

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Sold for
£2,300