Description:

5/- grey & chrome with Doubly Printed Frame Plate BW #43c (SG 30a), exceptional centring, characteristic rough perfs, some red crayon residue on the face, 'THE EXCHANGE' (NSW) cds, Cat $9000 (£4000). RPSofV Certificate (2017). Rare: only five or six used examples without 'OS' puncture are recorded. [Absent from Stuart Hardy's & Julian Sterling's collections. Arthur Gray's example - minor problems - sold in February 2007 for $US4887 (= $A6788 at the time). Hugh Morgan's vertical pair - "some minor imperfections" sold in 2012 for £3840]