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Auction: 20039 - The Gary Diffen Collection of Australian Colonies Errors Part 2 - Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia
Lot: 146

(x) Victoria
1863-80 Laureated Issues
1863-73 De La Rue Paper
1d. bluish green, perf 13, error printed double, cancelled by large part Sandhurst c.d.s. dated 17 February 1865, fine. Rare, only two examples recorded. RPSV Certificate (2008). S.G. 108ca, under-catalogued at £1500. Photo

Note: This error was first reported in the mid 1950s before being listed by Stanley Gibbons in 1958. This famous stamp is one of the great errors of the Laureated issues and one of the two printed double errors from Victoria.

provenance:
J.R.W. Purves, September 1981
Rod Perry
Nick Holness, April 2005

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Estimate
£2,500 to £3,000

Starting price
£2000