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Lot# 30682 - Auction 309-320

  • Lot# : 30682 Australia

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    Official / First Watermark 1914/20: Sideface 1 d. carmine-red, wmk. Crown over A, perf. 14¼ x 14, Cooke printing on War Savings paper, punctured large "OS / NSW", an unused vertical pair, variety "Imperforate between Stamp and Margin" at base, of good colour and large part og. A rarity, without the "OS / NSW" just three examples are known, two contained in a block of four used in Mackay, Queensland in March 1915 and one mint example of this variety which is illustrated in Brusden White on page 4/81; this being the sole example known punctured "OS/NSW" although the variety would have come from a strip of six, this item illustrated in Brusden White on page 4/107. An extremely rare multiple for the specialist BW 75bb = $ 60'000).rnrnProvenance: Collection Herbert McNess, Harmers, Sydney, 21-22 June 1979, lot 206; Greg Manning, USA, 10 May 1980, lot 29; Collection Sir Gawaine Baillie, Sotheby's, Melbourne, 13-15 July 2005, lot 455; Collection Arthur Gray, Mossgreen, Melbourne, 30 Oct 2015, lot 132.
    Starting bid : 12,000 CHF
    Hammer price : 21,000 CHF