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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: 301

(x) South Australia
1883-99 Watermark Crown over SA (Close)
Perf. 10
½d. chocolate horizontal pair imperforate between, cancelled by part duplex, some perf faults at sides. Rare, the only example recorded. S.G. 182a, £1500. Photo

Note: This error was first reported in the "Australian Stamp Monthly" in October 1936 and listed by Stanley Gibbons in 1950. No mint examples are known.

provenance:
William Frazer, September 2003

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Estimate
£1,200 to £1,500

Starting price
£1000