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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: 62

(x) New South Wales
1888-89 Centennial Issue
2d. Prussian blue block of four, the right vertical pair imperforate on three sides, some hinge remainders, fine mint. The only recorded examples of this error. S.G. 254b, £3400. Photo

Note: This error was first reported in "Philately from Australia" in 1953 and listed in the Stanley Gibbons catalogue the following year. Although originally listed as "imperforate between pair" the listing has been recently corrected to "imperforate three sides".

provenance:
Hutson, February 2013

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Sold for
£2,900

Starting price
£2000