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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: 48

(x) New South Wales
1861-97 Five Shillings Coin
1861-88 Issues
1888 (June) perf 10 5/- reddish purple vertical pair showing additional perf 12 row between, cancelled by Sydney duplex dated 3 October 1888, fine. RPSV Certificate (2013). S.G. 180b, unpriced. Photo

Note: The stamps in this pair are perforated 10 all round with an additional horizontal line of perforations guaging 12 between producing the mixed perforations error. Although this pair resided in the Hutson collection, he did not record it in the "Stamps of New South Wales" published in 1960. The discovery of this pair led to its listing in the Stanley Gibbons catalogue in 2016.

provenance:
Hutson, February 2013

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