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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: 153

(x) New South Wales
Official Stamps
1882-85 Issues
8d.yellow, perf 12x10, overprint double, unused with part original gum, tone spot on reverse otherwise fine. The only unused example recorded. S.G. O32ba, £1300. Photo

Note: There are no contemporary reports of this error until the sale of this mint example in the Slade Slade collection in 1979. It was listed in the 1984 Stanley Gibbons catalogue.

provenance:
E.R. Slade Slade, April 1979

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Sold for
£600

Starting price
£600