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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: 173

(x) Queensland
1862-67 Thick Toned Paper, No Watermark, Perf 13 Rough
1/- grey horizontal pair imperforate between, fine used. Extremely rare, three examples are recorded in private hands, with another pair residing in the Royal Collection. S.G. 29a, £17,000. Photo

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

provenance:
Ernest Collins, October 1928
Fair, February 1989

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Sold for
£8,000

Starting price
£4800