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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: 58

(x) New South Wales
1888-89 Centennial Issue
1d. lilac top left corner pair, imperforate, hinge remnant otherwise fine mint. Rare and under catalogued. RPSV Certificate (2013). S.G. 253c, £2250. Photo

Note: There are no reports of this error until the publication of "Stamps of New South Wales" by Hutson in 1960. The only recorded examples are this pair and the Hutson block of four. Another block resides in the Royal Collection.

provenance:
Carrington, November 2012

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Sold for
£2,000

Starting price
£1600