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Auction: 20039 - The Gary Diffen Collection of Australian Colonies Errors Part 2 - Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia
Lot: 39

(x) Tasmania
Sideface Issues
1870-71 Watermark Single-lined Numeral
2d. blue-green, perf 11½, error double print, cancelled "16" (Campbell Town), creased at left otherwise fine. Rare, seven postally used examples recorded of which this is one of the finest. S.G. 133ab, £1800. Photo

Note: This error was first recorded in "Philately from Australia" in December 1954 and was listed in the Stanley Gibbons catalogue in 1968.

provenance:
Peter Jaffé, March 2006

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Sold for
£800

Starting price
£650