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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: 43

(x) New South Wales
1856-63 Registered Sixpence
Perforated
1860 6d. rose-red and Prussian blue, perf 13, double impression of frame, a very fine mint example with sheet margin at top and the only recorded unused example. RPSV Certificate (2009). S.G. 125. Photo

Note: This error was known to collectors in the late 19th century and was published by Bassett Hull in 1911, but only in the pale blue shade. This mint example, and the used example in the following lot, are the only examples recorded in the Prussian blue shade.

provenance:
Silk, April 1944

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Sold for
£1,300

Starting price
£800