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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: 341

(x) South Australia
1906-12 Thick "postage"
Perf 12 or 12½
9d. brown-lake horizontal strip of three with margin at left, imperforate vertically except at right, large part original gum; light vertical crease at right. One of the great rarities of the South Australia Long Stamps and the finest example of this error known. Two strips of three (the other badly toned) and a creased block of six recorded. BW S52bb; S.G. 302aa, £5000. Photo

provenance:
J.R.W. Purves, June 1981
William Frazer, September 2003

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Sold for
£3,200

Starting price
£2400