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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: 199

(x) Queensland
1879-81 Watermark Crown over Q Type II
4d. orange-yellow horizontal pair imperforate vertically, fine mint. The only example recorded and the premier piece from Queensland during this period. RPSV Certificate (2009). S.G. 141a, £12,000. Photo

Note: This error was first reported in the "London Philatelist" in December 1902. With the purchase by Stanley Gibbons of the Hausberg collection in 1916 it was listed in their catalogue in 1917.

provenance:
Hausberg, Stanley Gibbons 1916
Bernie Manning, June 2009

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Sold for
£4,000

Starting price
£4000