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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: 197

(x) Queensland
1879-81 Watermark Crown over Q Type II
1d. scarlet Die I horizontal pair, imperforate between, lightly cancelled, fine. The finer of the two recorded examples, the other being damaged. RPSV Certificate (2009). S.G. 136aa, £2250. Photo

Note: This error was discovered in 2008 which led to its listing by Stanley Gibbons in 2011.

provenance:
Bernie Manning, June 2009

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Sold for
£1,500

Starting price
£1200