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Auction: 20039 - The Gary Diffen Collection of Australian Colonies Errors Part 2 - Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia
Lot: 132

(x) Victoria
1857-63 Emblems
1857 Calvert, Imperforate, Watermark Large Star
1d. yellow-green, error printed both sides, large margin at top and showing large portion of adjoining stamp at left, cut-into on other two sides, centrally cancelled "4" (Sandhurst), fine. The only recorded example in private hands. RPSV Certificate (1997). S.G. 41b, under-catalogued at £2750. Photo

Note: First reported in the London Philatelist in March 1896, it was listed in the Stanley Gibbons catalogue in 1923. Two used examples are recorded, with the other stamp residing in the Royal Collection. Both are cancelled by the Barred Numeral "4" of Sandhurst. Illustrated in the "Stamps of Victoria" by Geoff Kellow on page 114.

provenance:
Ferrari
J.R.W. Purves, September 1981
Rod Perry
Ken Barelli, May 2014

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Sold for
£2,800

Starting price
£2800