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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: 9

(x) New South Wales
1854-72 Diadem Issues
Imperforate
1854 6d. deep slate, watermark sideways facing right, close to large margins, centrally cancelled "23" (Wollongong), fine. The only recorded example. RPSV Certificate (2008). S.G. 89a under catalogued at £1200. Photo

Note: This error was discover by H. Gordon Kaye and was subject of an article in the "London Philatelist" in 1980, which led to its listing in the Stanley Gibbons catalogue in 1994.

provenance:
H. Gordon Kaye, March 1991

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Sold for
£1,800

Starting price
£1600