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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: 285

(x) South Australia
1876-1900 Watermark Broad Star
Perf. 10
2/- rose-carmine horizontal pair imperforate between, fine used. S.G. 145a, £3000. Photo

Note: The "Philatelic Record" in May 1891 published the first article on this error which was catalogued by Stanley Gibbons in 1923. Four examples are recorded, although one from the Hall sale in 1943 has not been seen since. There is another example in the Royal Collection.

provenance:
Rev. James Mursell, October 1964

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Sold for
£3,000

Starting price
£2000