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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: 241

(x) South Australia
1860-69 Second Rouletted Issue
1/- yellow vertical pair imperforate between, roulettes at right and traces at upper left, lightly cancelled by Adelaide c.d.s., fine. A major error and the only example recorded. R.P.S. Certificate (1965). S.G. 38a, £6000. Photo

Note: First reported in the "Australian Stamp Journal" in November 1913 and listed by Stanley Gibbons in 1950.

provenance:
Ferrari, June 1923
Ernest Collins, November 1928
Keith Mackenzie, February 1939
Rev. James Mursell, October 1964
Harry Napier, May 1976
H.H. Frenkle, September 1979
Michael Blake, February 2014

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Sold for
£4,500

Starting price
£2800