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Lot# 6404 - Auction 218-221

  • Lot# : 6404 Victoria

    Lithographed by J. S. Campbell & Fergusson, Melbourne 1854/57: Half-Length 3 d. bright blue on poorer quality paper, Stone B, Seventh printing, positions 21-22, an unused horizontal pair in a fresh shade on poorer quality paper, with margins close to large (huge on position 22), two minor ironed creases otherwise fresh and very fine, unused without gum, one of just four recorded unused pairs of this stamp and the largest recorded unused multiple Gi = £ 4'500+.rnrnProvenance: Collection Baron Philipp von Ferrary, Sale 8, Paris, 7-9 Nov 1923, lot 480.rnrn 
    Starting bid : 1,000 CHF
    Hammer price : 4,400 CHF