image

Previous Lot Next Lot

Auction: 20030 - The Gary Diffen Collection of Australian Colonies Errors Part 1 - New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia - conducted behind closed doors
Lot: 331

(x) South Australia
1904-11 Thick "postage"
1/- brown, perf 12, a horizontal pair imperforate between, fresh and fine mint. Rare, three pairs recorded with another in the Royal Collection.. BW S54b; S.G. 288b, £3250. Photo


Note: This error was first reported in the "Stanley Gibbons Monthly Journal" in January 1905 and listed by Stanley Gibbons in 1950.

provenance:
E.R. Slade Slade, 1979

Subject to 5% tax on Hammer Price in addition to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.

Estimate
£2,500 to £3,000

Starting price
£2000