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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: 176

(x) Queensland
1864-65 perf 12½x13 1d. orange-vermilion block of eight (4x2), imperforate between stamps and margin at foot, unused with large part original gum (the lower row unmounted), one with small light tone on reverse, otherwise fine and of superb appearance. RPSV Certificate (2008). S.G. 50. Photo

Note: This error was known to collectors in the 1920s with a strip of three in a mint block of eighteen in the Vickery collection in the Powerhouse Museum in New South Wales. The first publication of this error was with the sale of a strip of four in a mint block of sixteen in the Slade Slade sale in 1979. All the examples of this error appear to have originated from the same sheet, and now comprise this block of eight, the Slade Slade block of sixteen and the strip in the Vickery collection.

provenance:
Richard Stevenson, May 2003
Bernie Manning, June 2009

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Sold for
£4,500

Starting price
£3200