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Auction: 20039 - The Gary Diffen Collection of Australian Colonies Errors Part 2 - Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia
Lot: 30

(x) Tasmania
1871-91 Watermark Double-lined Numeral
1/- vermilion, perf 11½, a horizontal pair imperforate between, both crisply cancelled "43" (Franklin), fine. One of the great rarities of Tasmania, being the only example recorded postally used. S.G. 140a, unpriced. Photo

Note: This error was first reported in the "Stanley Gibbons Monthly Journal" in June 1891 and listed in the catalogue in 1929.

provenance:
E.R. Slade Slade, May 1979

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£5,200

Starting price
£2400