Corinphila Auction 291-297 Day 2

Single Watermark 1914/20: Sideface 1 d. dull red, Die I, wmk. Crown over A, perf. 14¼ x 14, Cooke printing on smooth paper, an unused example from Plate 4, position 60, variety "Imperforate between Stamp and Margin", of good colour and heavily mounted with age spot at base of lower margin but these are negligible compared to the rarity of this stamp - three examples are known, two contained in a block of four used in Mackay, Queensland in March 1915 and this, the sole recorded mint example of this variety.rnIllustrated in Brusden White on page 4/80. Unique and extraordinary stamp BW 71b = $ 50'000.rnProvenance: Premier, Melbourne, 16 Oct 2003, lot 241.