Feature Lot.
Lot 965 -
1936 KEVIII 2d red wmk Crown CofA UNISSUED due to his abdication. One full sheet was presented to the Governor of Victoria when he visited the printer on the occasion of the printing of the new stamps. But when the decision was made not to issue KEVIII stamps all the remaining sheets were then officially destroyed (and not a single example was even left in archives) & all proofs, dies & plates were also destroyed. The Governor was then asked by the printer to return the sheet which he did, with ....Estimate AU$200,000
Currently AU$ 140,000
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