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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: 221

(x) South Australia
1856-58 Printed in the Colony
2d. blood-red, double impression and printed on both sides, the second impression inverted, fine used and rare. The finer of the two examples in private hands. One of the great errors of South Australia and woefully under-catalogued at £1300. R.P.S. Certificate (1983). S.G. 8a. Photo

Note: Although the printed both sides error was recorded by Napier and Smith in 1894, the distinction between the red and blood-red shades was not made until publication by the "Australian Stamp Journal" in July 1921. It was listed in the 1917 Stanley Gibbons catalogue. Three examples are recorded, one being in the Royal Collection.

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Sold for
£2,900

Starting price
£2000