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Auction: 20039 - The Gary Diffen Collection of Australian Colonies Errors Part 2 - Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia
Lot: 186

(x) Victoria
1885-95 Naish 4d. lilac error of colour, centred to lower left, unused with part original gum. The finest example recorded of this iconic error of Victoria. S.G. 300b, £12,000. Photo

Note: This error was first reported in the "London Philatelist" in August 1900 and listed by Stanley Gibbons in 1909. Seven mint examples are recorded, four of which are defective. Two pairs are known.

provenance:
Henry Harvey, May 1976
Rod Perry

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Sold for
£8,000

Starting price
£8000