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Auction: 20039 - The Gary Diffen Collection of Australian Colonies Errors Part 2 - Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia
Lot: 29

(x) Tasmania
1871-91 Watermark Double-lined Numeral
6d. bright violet, perf 11½, a horizontal pair imperforate between, unused with a trace of gum, fine. The finest of the three examples recorded, one of which is torn and the other badly creased. The only unused imperforate between error of the Tasmania Chalons. S.G. 138b, £4500. Photo

Note: The "Stanley Gibbons Monthly Journal" of April 1897 reported this error after inspecting the Tapling Collection, and it was catalogued by Stanley Gibbons in 1994.

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Sold for
£6,500

Starting price
£2400