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

May 17 (Second Sunday of Use): 1 d. grey-black, plate 1a, lettered CJ, chiefly good margins just touching at upper right, tied to wrapper to Parliament Street, London, by red Maltese Cross, reverse with Preston c.d.s. (17 May) and next-day London morning duty cds, horizontal filing fold clear of adhesive, some light overall toning, though a rare usage from the second Sunday of issue Gi. AS2tj = £8,000
Provenance: Robson Lowe, 1 June 1949, lot 119; Seymour Collection, Robson Lowe, 7 November 1951, lot 11; "D. S." Collection, Phillips, 18 June 1987, lot 74; Harmers, London, 1 July 1982, lot 1889.