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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: 64

(x) New South Wales
1888-89 Centennial Issue
1/- violet-brown imperforate horizontal pair, fresh and fine mint. Rare, the finer of the two pairs recorded and much under catalogued. R.P.S. Certificate (1978). S.G. 258ca, £1400. Photo

Note: This error is often mis-classified from the imperforate error in purple-brown from the 1899 printing. Only two pairs and a marginal single are recorded.

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