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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: 321

(x) South Australia
1902-04 Thin "postage"
Perf. 11½-12½
1/- brown marginal block of four imperforate between vertically and between stamps and margin at foot, one with tone spot on reverse otherwise fine mint. The only block in private hands. S.G. 275b, £5500+. Photo

Note: This error was first recorded in the "Australian Philatelist" and listed by Stanley Gibbons in 1917. Nine pairs and this block are recorded. Another block is in the Royal Collection.

provenance:
J.R.W. Purves, June 1981

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Sold for
£2,000

Starting price
£2000