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Auction: 20039 - The Gary Diffen Collection of Australian Colonies Errors Part 2 - Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia
Lot: 204

(x) Victoria
1901-10 Watermark "V" over Crown
5/- rosine and blue, perf 12½, error imperforate between stamp and margin at foot, cancelled by "p.p./melbourne" c.d.s., small thin at lower left corner otherwise fine. Rare, two examples recorded. S.G. 398b. Photo

Note: This error was first reported in the "Australian Philatelic Record" in August 1930. At least two sheets were printed with this error, one with watermark upright, and this example with watermark inverted.

provenance:
J.R.W. Purves

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Sold for
£1,200

Starting price
£1200