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Lot# 20022 - Auction 298-307

  • Lot# : 20022 New South Wales

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    1850: 1 d. carmine-rose, Plate I, two horizontal pairs in a rich shade (positions 11-12, 21-22) and pair of early impressions 1850 2 d. greyish blue, Plate I, positions 23-24, all on March 1850 OHMS printed cover to Sydney from the Police Office in Wollombi, all tied by "65" numeral obliterators. The adhesives minutely shaved or with large margins, first 1 d. stamp at left with surface fault of no great significance. Reverse with oval "WOLLOMBI / ♚ / MR 12 / 1850 / NEW SOUTH WALES" despatch datestamp and circular "SYDNEY / ♚/ NEW SOUTH WALES" arrival (March 14) in black. Cover #61 in the Ben Palmer census, illustrated on page 28. Central file fold well away from the adhesives, a magnificent and wonderful cover for the connoisseur of classic philately. Cert. RPSL (1982).rnProvenance: Thomas Bull auction, London, 18 Jan 1890, lot 108; Collection Sir Andrew Clarke, Harmers, London, 29-30 Jan 1962, lot 41; Collection Lars Amundsen, SG, London,6-8 Dec 1967, lot 301; Collection W.R.D. Wiggins, RL, Zurich, 26 Nov 1981, lot 1735; Collection "Manwood", Siegel, New York, 8 Nov 1995, lot 4040; Df, Geneva, 28-31 May 2002, lot 10620.rnrn 
    Starting bid : 30,000 CHF
    Hammer price : 30,000 CHF