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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: 379

(x) South Australia
Departmental and Official Stamps
"O.S." (Official Stamps)
1874-77 perf 11½-12½ 1/- red-brown with overprint double (closely spaced), centred to left, fine used. Rare, three examples recorded. RPSV Certificate (2009). S.G. O12a, £375. Photo

Note: This error was first reported in the "London Philatelist" in April 1897 and listed by Stanley Gibbons in 1903.

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Sold for
£200

Starting price
£160