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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: 87

(x) New South Wales
1899 (Oct.) Watermark Crown over "NSW" (II) Issue
2½d. Prussian blue imperforate block of four with margin at right showing "g.p.o./n.s.w.", fine mint. S.G. 303a, £750. Photo

Note: Only two blocks of four have been recorded, this and the one in the Vickery collection in the Powerhouse Museum. The Royal Collection has a mint block of thirty-six.

provenance:
Colonel Harrie Evans, May 2002

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Sold for
£850

Starting price
£480