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Lot# 30375 - Auction 309-320

  • Lot# : 30375 Victoria

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    Beaded Oval 1860/66: 4 d. rose-pink, wmk. Four Pence, perf. 12, a used block of twenty-four (6 x 4), corner marginal from lower left of sheet and showing "VICTORIA" watermark in both margins, all cancelled by "1" in bars obliterators of Melbourne in black. Five stamps affected by diagonal crease but a remarkable and extremely rare multiple with gum. Illustrated in "The Stamps of Victoria" by Geoff Kellow RDP on page 134 where stated as a possible 'bulk postage' usage or possibly as 'Specimens'. A spectacular multiple.rnrnProvenance: Collection Charles Lathrop Pack, Harmer Rooke, New York, 11-13 March 1947, lot 1353.rn                     Collection Dale Forster.rn                     Collection Rod Perry, DF, Zurich, 16-21 Nov 1987, lot 20365.rn                     Rod Perry, Melbourne, 14 Nov 1989, lot 621.rn                     Rod Perry, Melbourne, 18 March 1999, lot 701.rn                     Spink, London,12 May 2005, lot 662.
    Starting bid : 850 CHF
    Hammer price : 1,300 CHF