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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: 269

(x) South Australia
1876-1900 Watermark Broad Star
Perf. 11½-12½
"3-pence" on 4d. ultramarine with closely spaced surcharge double, indistinctly cancelled; some shortish perfs at right, small corner crease and a touch soiled otherwise fine. A rare variant of which only three examples are recorded. RPSV Certificate (2013). S.G. 112a, £1900. Photo

Note: This error was first reported in the "London Philatelist" in February 1894 and listed by Stanley Gibbons in 1903. It occurs in two variations, the second, with the surcharges almost on top of each other, is much rarer.

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Sold for
£800

Starting price
£1600