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Auction: 20039 - The Gary Diffen Collection of Australian Colonies Errors Part 2 - Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia
Lot: 174

(x) Victoria
1863-80 Laureated Issues
1867-70 Emergency Printing on Perkins Bacon Paper
6d. dull blue on watermark double-lined "2", centred to lower left, lightly cancelled; small thins at top and pulled perf at left, otherwise fine. Arguably the most famous watermark error of Victoria. RPSV (1997) and B.P.A. (2008) Certificates. S.G. 161, £4750. Photo

Note: This error was first recorded in 1874 and was reported in the "Australian Philatelist" in September 1895, and listed in the 1899 Stanley Gibbons catalogue. Five examples are known, nearly all with minor faults, with another in the Royal collection. Two examples have not been seen since before WW2. This error is extensively detailed in the "Stamps of Victoria" by Geoff Kellow, page 169.

provenance:
J.R.W. Purves, September 1981
Rod Perry

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