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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: 312

(x) South Australia
1902-04 Thin "postage"
Perf. 12
3d. olive-green block of four with margin at foot, showing "postage" omitted and misplaced, value below "australia", superb unmounted mint. One of the great errors of South Australia. BW S19b, $3500+; S.G. 280a, £9000+ for the lower pair. Photo

Note: The discovery of a sheet with the error "postage" omitted was announced in the "Australian Stamp Journal" in September 1931 and was listed by Stanley Gibbons in 1950. This error affected the lower row, with the other 50 units showing misplacement of the "postage" and duty tablets. Only 10 examples exist, made up of four pieces, two blocks of four and two blocks of fifteen.

provenance:
A.E. Fryar, June 1955
Peter Jaffé, March 2006

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Sold for
£3,200

Starting price
£4000