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1945 Kangaroos
Designer: William Blamire Young - Printer: W.C.G. McCracken
McCracken Plates
Watermark 47 - Small Multiple Crowns over the letters "CofA"
referred to as the C of A watermark
The perforation has been listed as 12 or 11½ x 12, the actual size is 11.7 x 11.8 closer to 11¾ or 15 holes per inch.
With the exception of this 2/- issue, one die was used to print ALL other kangaroo stamps, the value was simply changed by
the insertion of value "plugs."
Issued 24 December, with perforation 11.7 x 11.8

1-17-4 2/- Maroon