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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: 132

(x) New South Wales
Official Stamps
1880-88 perf 10 5/- deep purple, overprint double, unused with large part original gum; light vertical crease and some shortish perfs at lower right. The only unused example recorded. One of the great overprint errors of the New South Wales Officials. R.P.S. (1940 and 2003) and B.P.A. (2010) Certificates. S.G. O14a, £4250. Photo

Note: The discovery of this error first came to the notice of collectors when this stamp was auctioned by Harmer Rooke in the Steinway sale of 1939. It was bought by the London dealer Tommy Allen who had it certified at the RPS in 1940. It was listed in the 1995 Stanley Gibbons catalogue.

provenance:
Theodore Steinway, October 1939
T. Allen
William Frazer, September 2003
"Alvarado", May 2010

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Sold for
£2,400

Starting price
£2000