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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: 200

(x) Queensland
1879-81 Watermark Crown over Q Type II
6d. yellow-green horizontal pair imperforate vertically and at top, unused without gum, the right-hand stamp with ironed-out vertical crease otherwise fine. The only example recorded. RPSV Certificate (2008). S.G. 143a, unpriced. 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

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Sold for
£1,600

Starting price
£1600