Auction 321 - 332 Australian States & Commonwealth of Australia, St. Helena, Basutoland, Bechuanaland, Swaziland, Brazil 1843 –1870 - Day 1

Typographed from electrotypes by F.W. Robinson 1859 (May-Dec): 4 d. bright rose-carmine on good quality wove paper, perf. 12, a used vertical pair showing variety "Imperforate between Horizontally". The error was noticed and the printer corrected the error with a row of rouletting across the pair, which is lightly cancelled by barred numeral "6" obliterators of Port Fairy. See the Stanley Gibbons footnote under SG 85. Unique. Certs. RPSV (1997), Perry (2006) Gi = unpriced.rnrnProvenance: Collection Ferrari de la Renotière, Sale VIII, Gilbert, Paris, 7-9 Nov 1923, ex lot 541.rn                     Collection Maurice Burrus, RL, London, 11 Feb 1964, lot 626.rn                     Collection Rod Perry, DF, Geneva, 16-21 Nov 1987, lot 20353.rn                     Collection Ken Barelli, Prestige, Melbourne, 2 May 2014, lot 3130.   rn