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Auction: 20039 - The Gary Diffen Collection of Australian Colonies Errors Part 2 - Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia
Lot: 206

(x) Victoria
1905-10 Watermark Crown over "A"
½d. blue-green block of six (2x3) with margin at right, error mixed perforations 12½ and 11 and showing Post Office repair strips at left and cuts at foot of each right-hand unit, fine mint. A remarkable block showing the difficulties the postal officials had in repairing mis-perforated sheets. Brusden White V26, $300+. S.G. 446. Photo

Note: This block is perforated 11 all round with an additional vertical line perforated 12½ at right creating the mixed perforation error. Although the compound perforation error was listed by Stanley Gibbons in 1959 it wasn't recognised as a separate mixed perforations error until its listing by Brusden White in 2004. This is the second largest multiple recorded of this error with a sheet residing in the Rod Perry collection as a reference listing in Brusden White.

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