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

The Plating collection of the Swan 1 d. value, using the 1 d. rose, 1 d. ochre, 1 d. carmine, and 1 d. yellow used; the exhaustive study on 30 pages with detailed descriptions for every position and a wonderful 'aide memoire' to the practicality and studiousness of the original collector, the stamps arranged by Pane; also a further study of the 2 d. on four pages showing the the sheet divided into four pages of 30 stamps each, all achieved with used examples of the 2 d. chrome, cancellation interest, a simply marvellous 'old-time' reference lot and almost impossible to replicate nowadays (443 items with many pairs in the 1 d. plating collection).