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Auction: 20039 - The Gary Diffen Collection of Australian Colonies Errors Part 2 - Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia
Lot: 36

(x) Tasmania
Sideface Issues
1870-71 Watermark Single-lined Numeral
1d. rose-red (watermark "4"), perf 12, an imperforate horizontal pair, both cancelled "48" (Kangaroo Point); some faults including tear and small piece missing at foot. The only example in private hands. RPSV Certificate (2014). S.G. 128a, unpriced. Photo

Note: There are no contemporary reports of the discovery of this error although it appeared in an early Plumridge auction before the turn of the century and listed by Stanley Gibbons in 1899. There is another example in the Tapling Collection at the British Library.

provenance:
John Bell, May 2013

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Sold for
£400

Starting price
£160