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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: 397

(x) South Australia
Departmental and Official Stamps
"O.S." (Official Stamps)
1876-85 perf 10x11½-12½ 6d. bright ultramarine with "O.S." double, one inverted, lightly cancelled, fine. Rare, five examples recorded. S.G. O19c, £650. Photo

Note: The first report of this error was in the "Australasian Stamp Monthly" in November 1938. This stamp is cancelled by the Port Elliot squared-circle datestamp, as is the Napier example.

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£380

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£200