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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: 226

(x) South Australia
1858-59 rouletted 2d. red printed both sides, the second impression upright, a short stamp with roulettes or traces thereof on three sides, lightly cancelled. Rare and under-catalogued at £850. RPSV Certificate (2010). S.G. 15a. Photo

Note: This error was first recorded in the "Stanley Gibbons Monthly Journal" in February 1897 and listed by Stanley Gibbons in 1917. It is rare, and often confused with the same error from the Second Roulette issue of 1860. Three used examples are recorded in private hands, with two additional examples in the Royal Collection.

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