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Auction: 20039 - The Gary Diffen Collection of Australian Colonies Errors Part 2 - Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia
Lot: 138

(x) Victoria
1857-63 Emblems
1860-63 Saunders Paper, Watermark in appropriate words
1d. yellow-green with watermark error "four pence", fine used. The only example recorded in private hands. R.P.S. Certificate (1957). S.G. 98b, £10,000. Photo

Note: This error was first reported in the "Philatelic Journal of Great Britain" in January 1916 and catalogued by Stanley Gibbons the following year. This, the first stamp recorded, was bought by Ferrari and sold in 1925 to King George V and now forms part of the Royal Collection. The stamp offered here is the only example available to collectors and is one of the great watermark errors of Victoria. It is one of the few stamps of Victoria not present in either the Purves or Perry collections.

provenance
William Frazer, September 2003

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Sold for
£7,500

Starting price
£7500