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Auction: 20039 - The Gary Diffen Collection of Australian Colonies Errors Part 2 - Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia
Lot: 50

(x) Tasmania
Sideface Issues
1878 (Oct.) 1d. carmine, an imperforate block of twelve (4x3) with margin at left, fresh and fine unmounted mint. S.G. 156. Photo

Note: Although this imperforate error is not listed in Stanley Gibbons, its existence has been noted by collectors for many decades. One school of thought is that this could be a plate proof, however, none were discovered when the De La Rue archives were sold by Robson Lowe in the mid 1970s. This is the second largest multiple of this error recorded.

provenance:
Sir Gawaine Baillie, July 2005

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Sold for
£950

Starting price
£800