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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: 225

(x) South Australia
1856-58 Printed in the Colony
2d. red printed both sides, the second impression inverted, close to good margins, cancelled in blue, fine. B.P.A. Certificate (2007). S.G. 9a. Photo

Note: The first report of this error was in the "Philatelic Record" in December 1891 and was listed by Stanley Gibbons in 1903. Although no catalogue distinction has been made, it appears that the second printing in the upright position is rarer than the inverted. Fourteen examples have been recorded in private hands.

provenance:
T.W. Hall, February 1943

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£1,200

Starting price
£600