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Auction: 20039 - The Gary Diffen Collection of Australian Colonies Errors Part 2 - Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia
Lot: 20

(x) Tasmania
1865-71 Watermark Double-lined Numeral, Perf 12
6d. slate-violet vertical pair imperforate between, straight-edge at left and with pen cancel removed, otherwise sound. A great rarity with two examples recorded, both fiscally used. S.G. 75a, unpriced. Photo

Note: The other example was in the Sebastian Earl collection of Tasmania, sold by Robson Lowe in Geneva in 1980. The error was listed by Stanley Gibbons in 1987.

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Sold for
£700

Starting price
£400