Auction 333-341 Western Australia & Great Britain - Day 3

1854/55: Lithographed 4 d. slate-blue, wmk. Swan sideways, an unused example with good to large margins, (Row 8, stamp 4, Pane B, position 149), with variety "Break in leg on the first "A" of AUSTRALIA". Fresh appearance and of resonant colour, unused without gum, a rare stamp so fine Gi = £ 4'000.
Provenance: Collection Raymond Wilson, Harmers, London, 20-21 May 1968, lot 432 (where the variety was not described).