U.S. & Worldwide Stamps; The Kaunas Collection Lithuania
May 8-9, 2013 and May 15, 2013

ImagesDescriptionCurrent Bid
Lot #520
BRITISH COMMONWEALTH AUSTRALIA Air Post
1919 First Aerial Post England-Australia, the so-called Ross-Smith vignette in dark blue, sheetlet with margins all around, l.h., v.f., couple of tiny natural inclusions, signed Kessler, with other handstamped guarantee marks and pencil signed. According to Eustis, 576 examples of the vignette were printed, of these 125 were destroyed and another 364 were used on mail; of the remaining 87 mint examples about 20 had their margins removed in anticipation of being used on mails and further 25 (ca) are held in institutional collections around the world, leaving only 42 or so sheetlets available to private collectors
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Catalog #YT 1
Price Realized
$9,000.00

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