Royal Philatelic Society (Great Britain) · London : The Royal Philatelic Society · leaf 183
, that he received the specimen of this Two Pence essay direct from Sydney, and that it was removed from the very piece of paper which now only bears impressions of One Penny and Three Pence values. During the past year or so many inquiries have been made by myself and other philatelists in order… … The astonishing part of my story is yet to tell. Just recently I have had an opportunity of going through the late Sir William B. Avery's collection of stamps, and my surprise may be imagined when I came across the speci- men of this missing Two Pence essay, an enlarged illustration of which…
