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Lot# 20372 - Auction 298-307

  • Lot# : 20372 Victoria

    Typographed from electrotypes by Samuel Calvert 1857 (Sept): Emblems 4 d. brownish-vermilion, wmk. Large Star, rouletted 7½-9 by the Raymond Machine on three sides (vertically and at base), a used horizontal strip of four, close to large margins all round but fourth stamp cut into at top right and creased, cancelled by barred numeral "49" obliterator of Heathcote in black. Unlisted by Stanley Gibbons. Rare.rnProvenance: Collection Charles Lathrop Pack, Harmer Rooke, New York, 11-13 March 1947, lot 1282; Collection Charles Lathrop Pack, Harmer Rooke, New York, 16-18 Feb 1949, lot 788; Collection J.R.W. Purves, RL, London, 9 Sept 1981, lot 182; Collection Rod Perry, Rod Perry, Melbourne, 21 June 1997, lot 398; Collection Ken Barelli, Prestige, Melbourne, 2 May 2014, lor 3047.
    Starting bid : 400 CHF
    Hammer price : 1,300 CHF