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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: 167

(x) Queensland
1862-67 Thick Toned Paper, No Watermark, Perf 13 Rough
1d. orange-vermilion imperforate horizontal pair, roughly separated at left otherwise fine used. The finer of the two examples in private hands, the other is badly cut-into at foot. Rare and under-catalogued. S.G. 22a, £2750. Photo

Note: This error was first reported by the London Philatelist in June 1916 with the pair in the Hausberg Collection sold to King George V. Both examples have been auctioned on only a couple of occassions in the past 100 years.

provenance:
Nelson, October 2012

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Sold for
£4,000

Starting price
£2000