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Lot# 30018 - Auction 309-320

  • Lot# : 30018 New South Wales

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    1850: 1 d. carmine-rose, Plate I, two single examples, positions 3 and 21, with just shaved to good margins, positions 3 with small fault at base and 21, tied to 1850 OHMS printed cover from Sydney to the Police Magistrate in Brisbane tied by barred obliterators in black. Manuscript 'Judicial Proceedings' and 'from Solicitors Office, Sydney 22 June 1850' at left, the printed conents mentioning an affidavit to be signed and returned. The reverse with circular "SYDNEY / ♚ / NEW SOUTH WALES" despatch cds (June 22) and fair only "BRISBANE / ♚ / NEW S. WALES" arrival (July 7). Cover #144 in the Ben Palmer census illustrated on page 52. Despite the imperfection a most appealing and rare entire.rnrnProvenance: Collection George Boucher, London, 19 April 1972, lot 517; Collection George Boucher, Basel, 17 Oct 1972, lot 814; Stanley Gibbons Merkur, Frankfurt, 21-23 April 1975, lot 2548; Macray Watson, Melbourne, 28 June 1994, lot 730; Spink, London, 8 May 1997, lot 1088; Spink, London, 14 Oct 1997, lot 750; Stanley Gibbons, Sydney, 25 Feb 1998, lot 832; Prestige, Melbourne, 24 Oct 2009, lot 248.
    Starting bid : 2,000 CHF
    Hammer price : 2,000 CHF