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Auction: 20039 - The Gary Diffen Collection of Australian Colonies Errors Part 2 - Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia
Lot: 167

(x) Victoria
1863-80 Laureated Issues
1867-80 Watermark V over Crown, Perf. 13
4d. dull rose with watermark sideways facing left, fine used. Very scarce with approximately a dozen examples estimated to exist. S.G. 135a, woefully under-catalogued at £70. Photo

Note: This error was first reported in "Philately from Australia" in March 1952. It was mentioned as a note in the 1958 Stanley Gibbons catalogue before being listed in 2005. It is interesting to record that this error is not mentioned in "Stamps of Victoria" by Geoff Kellow.

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