Lot 5070

Description

Australia, Australian Gold medallists sheet collection in a cliplock folder, a complete set of 16 x 6 sheets (A4 size with 20 stamps), each sheet has 2 sheetlets each of 10 stamps; each of the digital Fuji Xerox printed sheets contained the image of each gold medallist award; each set of 16 sheets came from each state with the state logo twice on each sheet; NSW (platypus), Victoria (possum), ACT (kookaburra), Queensland (koala), Western Australia (swan), South Australia (kangaroo); each sheet comes with its black printed interleaf backing sheet placed behind it when each sheet was digitally produced as part of the manufacturing process. Although 96 sheets make up the complete set in this lot there are only 95 different sheets as one Western Australian sheet has a separation error (See next lot). MUH. (95 sheets, 190 sheetlets)

Fuji Xerox printed up to 52,500 sheets of stamps per winner and these were all split into sheetlets. Only 3 or 4 complete sets of sheets it is believed were put together and as such this set very rare.