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Auction: 20039 - The Gary Diffen Collection of Australian Colonies Errors Part 2 - Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia
Lot: 140

(x) Victoria
1857-63 Emblems
1860-63 De La Rue Paper, Watermark single-lined "2"
2d. grey-lilac, error watermark "6", cancelled by Melbourne c.d.s. of 26 October 1863, fine. Two examples recorded in private hands. RPSV Certificate (1997). S.G. 101ab, much under-catalogued at £6500. Photo

Note: This error was first published in the "Australian Philatelist" in September 1897 and listed by Stanley Gibbons in 1899. This, the first stamp recorded, was bought by Ferrari and sold in 1923 to King George V and now forms part of the Royal Collection. Two examples are recorded in private hands, this being the finer. One of the great watermark errors of the Australian Colonies. Illustrated in colour on Plate 8 of the "Stamps of Victoria" by Geoff Kellow.

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

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Sold for
£7,500

Starting price
£7500