Auction 221 - Australia

1851 (Jan): 2 d. ultramarine, on stout yellowish vertically laid paper, Plate IV, positions 1/13, a sensational unused vertical pair from the left of sheet, of good strong colour and showing the complete retouched vertical guide line at left of position 13. Some minor age staining and a couple of creases, suspicion of repair at upper right corner of position 1 but of remarkably fresh appearance with part og. An exceptionally attractive unused multiple of great rarity Gi = £ 15'000+.rnrnProvenance: Probably Charles Lathrop Pack.rn                   Collection Alfred Lichtenstein & Lousie Boyd Dale, Harmers, London, 14 May 1990, lot 45.
Catalogue 221: The Besançon Collection Australia & Australien States