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Auction: 20039 - The Gary Diffen Collection of Australian Colonies Errors Part 2 - Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia
Lot: 151

(x) Victoria
1863-80 Laureated Issues
1863-73 De La Rue Paper
4d. rose, perf 12, error printed double, clearly cancelled, misperforated resulting in perfs being cut-off at right and at foot, fine. Rare, the only example recorded. RPSV Certificate (1997). S.G. 110a under-catalogued at £1500. Photo

Note: This error was first in the "Philatelic Journal of Great Britain" in October 1929 and listed by Stanley Gibbons in 1958. The second of the printed double errors from Victoria. Illustrated in the "Stamps of Victoria" by Geoff Kellow, page 162.

provenance:
J.R.W. Purves
Rod Perry
Nick Holness, April 2006

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Estimate
£1,500 to £2,000

Starting price
£1200