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Auction: 20039 - The Gary Diffen Collection of Australian Colonies Errors Part 2 - Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia
Lot: 9

(x) Tasmania
1857-67 Watermark Double-lined Numeral
4d. bright blue printed both sides, the second impression upright, clear margins, cancelled by dumb obliterator, fine. One of the great rarities of Tasmania. R.P.S. Certificate (1963). S.G. 38a, unpriced. Photo

Note: This error was first reported in the "London Philatelist" in August 1909 and listed by Stanley Gibbons in 1923. This is the only example recorded in private hands with another example residing in the Royal Collection.

provenance:
Sebastian Earl, April 1980
Maxwell Hayes, February 1989
Koichi Sato, June 2014

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Sold for
£7,000

Starting price
£3200