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Auction: 19045 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale
Lot: 840

(x) South Australia
1868-79 perf 11½-12½, 6d. Prussian blue horizontal pair, error imperforate between, an indistinctly cancelled pair with just three of perforation (at top) between, roughly separated at left and small corner fault at lower right. R.P.S. Certificate (1965). S.G. 73a, £2250. Photo

Note: There are only three examples of this error recorded, the other two with significant faults. This pair was responsible for the listing in Stanley Gibbons in 1971.

provenance:
Harry Napier, May 1976
Henry Frenkle, September 1979

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Sold for
£2,800

Starting price
£2000