Australian Aborigine 2/6 Bw 265A

Hi to all
Well finally here it is.

My certified as genuine 2/6 aborigine stamp.

It was worth the wait for the certificate. My first certified rarity,

Regards
Horamakhet

Awesome, congratulations on a wonderful find.! A small pity that the handwritten description is so messy.!

Yes congratulations! (I agree about the horrible handwriting). But I have no access to the catalog mentioned in the cert - what makes the stamp special?

Hi Jenny2U and others

In the Gibbons Catalogue, it is listed as 253aw, which is Wmk crown to left of C of A, all normal ones are right to C of A.

Gibbons lists it a five thousand pounds, but that is for very exceptional copies.

This one is probably worth about $4000.00

The BW stands for Brunsden White who issue the Australian Specialist Catalogues. Brunsden use different terminology than Gibbons, and if you specialize in Australian stamps it is very important to have their catalogues.

Regards

Horamakhet

There are only a handful known at the moment so I would say all are pretty exceptional. Well done.

Congrats Horamkhet, happy for you.

Was the stamp in your collection for sometime before
you realized you had something there?

Or did you buy it?

Yes the writing looks kind of shaky but maybe Mr. Watson
is an elderly gentleman and sometimes age does that
to one's penmanship.
At least it is easy to read though.

Hi Lithograving

I bought an old collection of world stamps in a childs album.
The average cost of each stamp was two cents, so that is a real bargain.
One of those "winning the lottery without a ticket" scenarios,
Like most specialised collectors, I always check the watermarks on stamps, especially Australian as quite a few with error watermarks are very valuable.
Regards
Horamakhet.

Yes I would agree that that was some bargain.

I bet every body will now check their copies.

BRB I think there might be one in my grandfather's
old album.

What a great find! How interesting that a relatively modern stamp can be worth that much.