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Auction: 20039 - The Gary Diffen Collection of Australian Colonies Errors Part 2 - Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia
Lot: 175

(x) Victoria
1863-80 Laureated Issues
1867-70 Emergency Printing on Saunders Paper
6d. dull blue on watermark single-lined "4", centred to lower right, clearly cancelled, fine. One of the finest examples known of this iconic error. R.P.S. Certificate (1938). S.G. 168, £3500. Photo

Note: This error was listed in the Stanley Gibbons catalogue in 1899. Nine examples are known, six with faults, and there is a pair in the Royal collection. Three examples have not been seen since the 1950s. This error is extensively detailed in the "Stamps of Victoria" by Geoff Kellow, page 169.

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

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Sold for
£3,000

Starting price
£3000