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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: 294

(x) South Australia
1868-76 watermark Crown over SA, rouletted 2d. pale orange-red vertical pair with margin at foot, imperforate horizontally, roulettes or traces thereof on both sides, cancelled "108" (Callington), corner crease in margin otherwise fine. The only example recorded in private hands. S.G. 153c, £3000. Photo

Note: This error was first published in the "The Stanley Gibbons Monthly Journal" in February 1907, almost certainly referencing the vertical strip of three in the Tapling Collection. This example was first auctioned in 2003 and catalogued by Stanley Gibbons the following year.

provenance:
Chartwell, May 2018

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Sold for
£3,000

Starting price
£2000