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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: 306

(x) South Australia
1891 (Jan.) perf 10 2½d. on 4d. pale green vertical pair imperforate between, lightly cancelled; straight-edge at right and light corner crease. The only example recorded and one of the great imperforate errors of the period. S.G. 229bb, £3750. Photo

Note: This error was first reported in the "Australian Stamp Monthly" in October 1936, noted by James in "The Stamps of South Australia" in 1947 and listed by Stanley Gibbons in 1950.

provenance:
A.E. Fryar, June 1955
William Frazer, September 2003

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Sold for
£3,000

Starting price
£2400