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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: 26

(x) New South Wales
1854-72 Diadem Issues
Perforated
1863 perf. 12 2d. Prussian blue, watermark "1", lightly cancelled "18" (Mudgee); thin at foot not affecting fine appearance. One of the great watermark errors of the Australian Colonies, being the only example in private hands, and under-catalogued at £3500. R.P.S. (1923) and RPSV (2013) Certificates. S.G. 136a. Photo

Note: This error was discovered by Sydney stamp dealer T.H. Nicolle and reported by Bassett Hull in the "Australia Philatelist" in May 1904. Five other examples are known, all in institution collections. One is in the Royal Collection, and two in the Vickery Collection in the Powerhouse Museum in New South Wales. An example is in the Armstrong Collection in the Mitchell Library in New South Wales, and the H.L. White example in the New South Wales State Library is now believed lost.

provenance:
Ernest Collins, October 1928
H.P. Manus, June 1933
Geo Ginger, December 1945
Hutson, February 2013

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Sold for
£3,500

Starting price
£3200