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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: 174

(x) Queensland
1864-65 perf 13 2d. deep blue strip of three, imperforate between first and second stamp and with perforations double along top, lightly cancelled. Extremely rare, the only example recorded in private hands. S.G. 46b, £16,000. Photo

Note: There are no contemporary reports of this error until its listing in the 1917 Stanley Gibbons catalogue. Most of the errors listed in this year were in the Hausberg Collection, sold by Stanley Gibbons in 1916. King George V had first offers on this Queensland collection, filling many of the errors, including an example of this imperforate between.

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

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Sold for
£7,500

Starting price
£6500