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Lot# 553 - Auction 298-307

  • Lot# : 553 Western Australia

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    Recess from Perkins Bacon plates 1860/64: 2 d. deep vermilion, imperforate, wmk. Swan sideways, an unused example, marginal from right of sheet, showing variety "Pre-printing paper flaw" leaving a diagonal streak across the stamp, fresh and very fine for this rare shade, unused without gum.  A very rare stamp in this shade and believed unique with this variety. Cert. Dunkerley (2008) which states "only the fourth unused example I have seen in private hands and the only one with this variety" Gi = £ 1'900+.
    Starting bid : 750 CHF
    Hammer price : 1,700 CHF