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Lot# 3228 - Auction 321-332

  • Lot# : 3228 New South Wales

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    1851 (Jan): 2 d. ultramarine, Plate IV (position 12) showing "Unshaded Hill" variety, a fine example of good colour with good to large margins all round and showing marginal line complete at top and at left, used on 1851 O.H.M.S. cover from the Colonial Secretary's Office to Raymond Terrace, tied by barred obliterator in black with manuscript date "25 January 1851" at base. Reverse with circular "SYDNEY / ♚ / NEW SOUTH WALES" despatch datestamp (Jan 27) and oval "RAYMOND TERRACE / ♚ / NEW S. WALES" arrival (Jan 28) in black. The second earliest usage of the 2 d. Plate IV in the Palmer cover census (#53). Most attractive and scarce.rnrnProvenance: Collection Geo. Boucher, RL, London, 19 April 1972, lot 745; RL, London, 26-27 Oct 1982, lot 264; SG, Melbourne, 25 May 1994, lot 674; Millennium, Sydney, 21 Oct 2009; DF, Geneva, Dec 2011, lot 40419; Abacus, Melbourne, 30-31 Aug 2020, lot 1376.rnrn 
    Starting bid : 3,000 CHF
    Hammer price : not sold