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Lot# 30358 - Auction 309-320

  • Lot# : 30358 Victoria

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    Typographed from electrotypes by Samuel Calvert 1857: Emblems 1 d. yellow-green, wmk. Large Star, imperforate, a used single, horizontal pair and horizontal strip of five, all with good to large margins all round, on 1857 cover to Beechworth, tied by barred numeral "1" obliterators of Melbourne in black. Reverse with Melbourne despatch datestamp (April 4) and Beechworth arrival (April 8). The embossed flap on reverse of the cover identifies the sender as the Melbourne firm "Fergusson & Mitchell", engravers and printers. John Mitchell was the true, alas unacknowledged, designer of the Emblems Issue. A delightful and scarce cover. Certs. RPSL (1976), pERRY (2006).rnrnProvenance: Corinphila sale 59, Zurich, 25-30 Oct 1976, lot 4408.rn                     Collection Rod Perry, DF, Geneva, 16-21 Nobv 1987, lot 20320.rn                     Collection Ken Barelli, Prestige, Melbourne, 2 May 2014, lot 3019.
    Starting bid : 1,750 CHF
    Hammer price : 1,750 CHF