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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: 319

(x) South Australia
1902-04 Thin "postage"
Perf. 11½-12½
9d. rosy lake vertical pair imperforate between and between stamp and margin at foot, very fine mint. S.G. 273a, £2750. Photo

Note: This error was first recorded in the "Australian Philatelist" in January 1906 and listed in the Stanley Gibbons catalogue in 1917. Eight examples are recorded, including a pair in the Vickery Collection in the New South Wales Powerhouse Museum.

provenance:
Rev. James Mursell, October 1964
H.H. Frenkle, September 1979
Sir Gawaine Baillie, July 2005

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Sold for
£1,700

Starting price
£1000