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Auction: 20039 - The Gary Diffen Collection of Australian Colonies Errors Part 2 - Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia
Lot: 60

(x) Tasmania
Sideface Issues
1889 (Jan.) "Halfpenny" on 1d. scarlet, a complete right pane of sixty (folded and no bottom margin), R.1/2 showing "al" of "Halfpenny" reading downwards, fine mint, mounted in the selvedge only. A great rarity being the only complete pane recorded. S.G. 167/a, £2300+

Note: Two printings of 500 sheets were made of this surcharge before the issue of the ½d. orange in 1891. In the second printing, the second position in the right pane had the "al" of "Halfpenny" reading downwards and was quickly corrected after a "few sheets" had been printed. This error was first reported in the "Federal Australian Philatelist" in January 1890 and listed by Stanley Gibbons in 1897.

provenance:
R.B. Yardley, December 1944
E.R. Slade Slade, May 1979

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Sold for
£1,600

Starting price
£800