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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: 85

(x) New South Wales
1899 (Oct.) Watermark Crown over "NSW" (II) Issue
1d. salmon-red horizontal pair with mixed perfs, slight gum toning and the right stamp with vertical crease otherwise fine mint. Rare, the only recorded example in private hands. RPSV Certificate (2014). S.G. 301b, unpriced. Photo

Note: The stamps in this pair are perforated 12x11½ with an additional vertical line of perforations guaging 11 between producing the mixed perforation error. This pair was discovered in 2013 and led to its listing in the 2014 Stanley Gibbons catalogue. There is another pair in the H.L. White collection in the State Library of New South Wales.

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Estimate
£350 to £500

Starting price
£280