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Auction: 20039 - The Gary Diffen Collection of Australian Colonies Errors Part 2 - Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia
Lot: 27

(x) Tasmania
1871-91 Watermark Double-lined Numeral
6d. lilac, perf 11½, a vertical pair imperforate between, pen-cancelled, fine. Five examples are known in private hands, all cancelled in manuscript. RPSV Certificate (2006). S.G. 136a, £1700. Photo

Note: This error was listed as "imperforate between" by Stanley Gibbons in 1923, however, there were two different types of this error which was corrected in the 2010 catalogue. Six imperforate horizontally between pairs are known, including one in the White collection in the New South Wales State Library.

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£520

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£400