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

1872: 1 d. black, South Kensington Exhibition Proof, block of four, lettered GA-HB, imperforate, on thick white card, four even margins all around, a fine and rare block Gi. DP36 = £8'000.

On occasion of this exhibition, Perkins Bacon printed proofs from Die II, Plate 27, in black. This sheet was afterwards retained by the printers, and sold upon the firm`s dissolution in 1935.