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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: 375

(x) South Australia
Departmental and Official Stamps
"O.S." (Official Stamps)
1874-77 perf 11½-12½ 1d. deep yellow-green, printed both sides, fine used. Thirteen examples recorded with another three in public collections. S.G. O6a, £1300. Photo

Note: This error was first reported in the "Philatelic Record" in October 1884 and was listed by Stanley Gibbons in 1903. The second impression on reverse is very clearly printed, unlike its unoverprinted counterpart at SG 64a.

provenance:
William Frazer, September 2003

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