MONEY IN STAMPS.
PHILATELIC TREASURES. LONDON, March 7. A fourpenny blue Western Australian stamp of 1854, with the swan inverted, was offered by Plumridge and Co., Dostage stamp auctioneers. Bidding started at £2OO, and it was sold for £6BO to a privato collector. Only ten examples of this stamp are in existence. The King possesses one and the others are in the British and Dublin Museums and the Mitchell Library, Sydney. A specimen was sold for £llOO in 1923. -Another Western Australian fourpenny 1854 stamp with the swan in the right position realised £34. A strip of four Victoria grey-lilac twopenny stamps dated 1850 each post marked with a blue butterfly, brought £145.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 93, 17 March 1927, Page 10
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113MONEY IN STAMPS. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 93, 17 March 1927, Page 10
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