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Auction: 20039 - The Gary Diffen Collection of Australian Colonies Errors Part 2 - Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia
Lot: 133

(x) Victoria
1857-63 Emblems
1857 Calvert, Imperforate, Watermark Large Star
4d. vermilion, error printed both sides, good margins on two sides, touched on the others, lightly cancelled, fine. The only example recorded in private hands. R.P.S. Certificate (1948). S.G. 42b, under-catalogued at £2750. Photo

Note: First reported in the London Philatelist in October 1897, it was listed in the Stanley Gibbons catalogue in 1958. Two used examples are recorded, with the other stamp residing in the Royal Collection. Illustrated in the "Stamps of Victoria" by Geoff Kellow, page 113.

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

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Sold for
£3,200

Starting price
£3200