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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: 447

(x) South Australia
Departmental and Official Stamps
"O.S." (Official Stamps)
1891-95 perf 10x11½-12½ 5d. on 6d. deep brown, a top right corner block of nine with two showing no stop after "S", the lower left corner stamp with blunt corner and some damage in top selvedge otherwise fine mint. S.G. O72a, £1385. Photo

Note: This error was first reported in the "Stanley Gibbons Monthly Journal" in December 1917 and listed by Stanley Gibbons the same year. This block provides the proving evidence that the error appeared twice in the right pane at positions 12 and 16. It is the only multiple recorded.

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£290

Starting price
£240