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

1 d. red-brown, plate 11, horizontal strip of four, lettered EC-EF, margins mostly close or cut into in places, good at top, tied to piece by multiple strikes of Maltese Cross in red, creased through EE, and other imperfections, but an exceptionally rare multiple, signed F. Godden on reverse, the largest recorded 1d. red multiple cancelled with a red Maltese Cross Gi. AS74va = £15'000 as singles only.

Provenance: Jubilee Exhibition, Royal Philatelic Society London, May 1935; collection Seymour, Robson Lowe, London, 11 April 1951, lot 376; Robson Lowe, London, 8 February 1972, ot 110.