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9d Violet (Plate 1) No Monogram corner strip of 3 from the left pane; the stamps MUH; lightly mounted in the margins. An incredible rarity, we have been able to trace only one other example from the left pane: Lot 108 in the Hugh Morgan sale Nov. 2012 with "...corner crease and a few reinforced perfs..." sold for £15,600 incl. commission). An example from the right pane sold for $27,000 plus comm. at the Prestige Auction of April 2006. Neither was in the Arthur Gray collection. BW:24(1)z - $40,000.
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Categories: Stamps & Postal History > COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA > Kangaroos - First Watermark