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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: 400

(x) South Australia
Departmental and Official Stamps
"O.S." (Official Stamps)
1876-85 perf 10x11½-12½ 2/- carmine with "O.S." inverted, fine used. Five examples are recorded with further examples in the Royal and Vickery Collections. RPSV Certificate (2011). S.G. O21a, £600. Photo

Note: This error was first reported in "South Australia" by Napier in 1894 and listed by Stanley Gibbons in 1903.

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