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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: 16

(x) New South Wales
1854-72 Diadem Issues
Imperforate
1856 1d. orange-vermilion, watermark "2", three large margins and neatly cancelled with small part Sydney duplex; small tear at left and a fraction soiled. The only recorded example. RPS Certificate (1941 and 2003). S.G. 107a, £8,500. Photo

Note: This error was discovered by the English dealer Tommy Allen and its discovery was announced in the "Australian Stamp Journal" in December 1935, This stamp is regarded as one of the great watermark errors of the Australian Colonies.

provenance:
William Frazer, September 2003
"Alvarado", May 2010

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Sold for
£4,500

Starting price
£4000