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Auction: 20039 - The Gary Diffen Collection of Australian Colonies Errors Part 2 - Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia
Lot: 197

(x) Victoria
1899-1901 Watermark "V" over Crown, Perf. 12½
2d. violet block of four with watermark sideways facing left, fine mint. The most important mint sideways watermark piece of the later period errors. S.G. 359a, unpriced. Photo

Note: This error was first reported in "Philately from Australia" in March 1952 and listed by Stanley Gibbons in 2000. Mint examples are rare with three singles and this block the only examples recorded.

provenance:
J.R.W. Purves

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Estimate
£500 to £800

Starting price
£400