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Auction: 20039 - The Gary Diffen Collection of Australian Colonies Errors Part 2 - Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia
Lot: 21

(x) Tasmania
1865-71 Watermark Double-lined Numeral, Perf 12
1/- vermilion vertical pair imperforate between, lightly cancelled by Hobart duplex, fine. The only postally used example recorded. R.P.S. Certificate (1989). S.G. 77b, £3500. Photo

Note: Although collectors knew of this error in the 1930s with the auction of the Ernest Collins collection, it was not listed by Stanley Gibbons until 1987. There are six fiscally used pairs known to exist.

provenance:
Ernest Collins, November 1928
F.C. Krichauff, November 1947
David Cohen, July 2007

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Sold for
£5,800

Starting price
£2400