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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: 169

(x) Queensland
1862-67 Thick Toned Paper, No Watermark, Perf 13 Rough
2d. blue horizontal pair imperforate between, lightly cancelled, small corner crease, fine used. Extremely rare. The only example in private hands with another pair in the Royal Collection. S.G. 24b, £15,000. Photo

Note: This error was first reported in "Stanley Gibbons Monthly Journal" in September 1895.

provenance:
C.J.L. Snowden, February 1953
Nelson, October 2012

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Sold for
£8,500

Starting price
£6500