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Auction: 18047 - The Chartwell Collection of Australian States and Commonwealth, an unreserved auction for the benefit of the Chartwell Philanthropic Educational Programme
Lot: 227

(x) Tasmania
1870-1909 Sideface Stamps
Issued Stamps
1871-78 perf 11½, 1d. rose vertical pair, variety imperforate, close to good margins, cancelled by Hobart Town duplex, horizontal crease between otherwise fine. Very rare. RPSV Certificate (2001). S.G. 144a, £1300. Photo

Note: In Philately from Australia, June 2014, Gary Diffen records only six examples of this variety including one in the Royal Collection. Two horizontal pairs are known, all the rest being vertical. No mint examples are known.

provenance:
Colonel Harrie Evans, May 2002

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Sold for
£380