AUSTRALIA. GV. 1932. RARE! 5/- Sydney Harbour Bridge stamp used POSTALLY with neat Adelaide CDS. 


Fresh and clean with Adelaide CDS.

This is one of the most famous stamps from Australia and missing from nearly all collections - only 72,800 "5 Bob Bridge" stamps were issued. SG 143, ACSC148.

Most of the remaining stamps are CTO (cancelled to order) and were "sold" in "Specimen packs" for about 15 years. They are still highly sought and valuable and are readily distinguished from postally used by the neat corner CTO cancel.  

A 5 Bob Bridge used postally (commercially) is, according to an eminent Australian dealer and expert, "100 times rarer!" Remove the damaged (torn, creased, toned, poor perfs) and the heavily cancelled stamps from this small group and the pool becomes even smaller. They are possibly even rarer than mint stamps.

The difference between CTO and Postally used is now recognised in the SG catalogues: "The used price for SG143 is for a cancelled to order example. Postally used examples are worth more". 


These stamps were printed on coarse, absorbant paper and perforated crudely. The coarse paper meant a very large number of these have been "thinned" over the years and mostly the perforations are terrible and poorly punched. 

They were perforated with a single line machine; so one side at a time. The sheet was then turned 90 degrees and the other sides preforated. This resulted in poorly centered stamps being the norm.

This one is super! Fresh colour, clean, super perfs and a clear Adelaide CDS.

No thins, tears or toning.

GLORIOUS!

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