Auction 309-320 - Australian States & Commonwealth British Africa, St. Helena - Day 2

Second Watermark 1915 (Feb 12): Kangaroo 5 s. deep grey & chrome yellow, Die II, second Crown over A wmk., perf. 12, an unused marginal example, variety "Yellow Printed Double", showing the second printing of the frame plate 8 mm. below the original, dried part og. Just four unused examples were originally found in 1915 in a horizontal strip, subsequently split into singles of which one (ex R. T. P. Chapman) is now housed in the Australia Post Archival Collection. Immensely rare, this being the sole marginal example. Cert. BPA (1934) for the original horizontal pair Gi = £ 15'000 / BW 43c = $ 25'000.rnrnProvenance: Collection Thomas E. Field, Harmers, London, 15-16 Aug 1948, lot 162. Sale cancelled, sold intact to Kilfoyle; Collection J. A. Kilfoyle, Harmers, London, 16-17 Oct 1961, lot 120 (as a pair); Spink, London, 17 Oct 2002; Two stamps from the original strip were in the Sir Gawaine Baillie collection, Sotheby's, Melbourne, 13-15 July 2005, lots 166 (sold to Arthur Gray) and 167. The Chapman example adjoined the stamp we offer above.