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Auction: 20030 - The Gary Diffen Collection of Australian Colonies Errors Part 1 - New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia - conducted behind closed doors
Lot: 6

(x) New South Wales
1851-54 Laureated Issues
Watermark double-lined "1"
1854 3d. yellow-green, error watermark "2", very close to good margins and unusually generally lightly cancelled. RPSV Certificate (2008). S.G. 87b, £1600. Photo

Note: This error was well known to colonial collectors in the late 1870s before publication in "The Philatelic Record" in May 1890. It is one of the most famous errors of New South Wales. Whilst over twenty examples of this error are recorded, nearly all of the exhibit defects and faults. This is one of the finest examples known.

provenance:
C.L. Pack
V.P. Manwood, November 1993

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Sold for
£800

Starting price
£650