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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: 236

(x) South Australia
1860-69 Second Rouletted Issue
2d. bright vermilion horizontal pair imperforate between, traces of roulettes at top only, cancelled by Adelaide c.d.s. (21.6.67), fine. S.G. 26a, £900. Photo

Note: This error was first recorded in the "London Philatelist" in April 1904 and listed in the 1917 Stanley Gibbons catalogue. It comes in two distinct shades with the bright vermilion appearing to be the much scarcer.

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Sold for
£1,700

Starting price
£320