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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: 183

(x) Queensland
1866-67 Lithographed
5/- pale rose vertical pair, imperforate between, cancelled by "gpo" in bars in both red and in black, slightly thinned otherwise fine. One of two examples recorded in private hands with another pair in the Royal Collection. S.G. 58a, £9000. Photo

Note: This error was first reported in the "London Philatelist" in July 1892 and listed by Stanley Gibbons in 1917. All three pairs are fauly and derive from the same block. This is the finer of the two pairs available in private hands.

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


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Sold for
£4,000

Starting price
£2800