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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: 248

(x) South Australia
1868-79 Watermark Large Star, Perf. 11½-12½
1d. deep yellow-green horizontal pair imperforate between, both neatly cancelled "46" (Hahndorf); straight-edge at right otherwise fine. One of the major errors of South Australia. R.P.S. Certificate (1965). S.G. 65a, £3250. Photo

Note: This error first came to light with the sale of the Napier collection in 1976 and was listed in the 1995 Stanley Gibbons catalogue.

provenance:
Harry Napier, May 1976
H.H. Frenckle, September 1979

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Sold for
£4,500

Starting price
£2000