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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: 171

(x) Queensland
1862-67 Thick Toned Paper, No Watermark, Perf 13 Rough
6d. yellow-green horizontal pair imperforate between, lightly cancelled, pulled perf at top, otherwise fine. The only example recorded and the only imperforate between pair of the 6d. Chalon. The premier used imperforate between error of the Queensland Chalons. S.G. 27a, £16,000. Photo

Note: Although listed by Stanley Gibbons in 1923, the first published reports of this error did not appear until the "London Philatelist" in July 1930.

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

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Sold for
£10,000

Starting price
£6500