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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: 344

(x) South Australia
1906-12 Thick "postage"
Perf 12 or 12½
1/- brown horizontal pair with interpanneau margin at top, imperforate between, superb unmounted mint. BW S55b; S.G. 303a, £3750. Photo

Note: This error was first recorded in the "London Philatelist" in September 1918 and listed by Stanley Gibbons in 1925. At least two sheets were issued with this error. Eight pairs are recorded with one in the Royal Collection.

provenance:
Hamilton, October 1980

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Sold for
£2,200

Starting price
£1600