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Auction: 20039 - The Gary Diffen Collection of Australian Colonies Errors Part 2 - Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia
Lot: 212

(x) Victoria
1905-10 Watermark Crown over "A"
3d. ochre, a lower left corner vertical strip of five showing mixed perforations 12½ and 11 affecting all the stamps, fine mint. The most important mixed perforation piece from the 1905 issue. Brusden White V85, $5,000+; S.G. 449a, £3250+. Photo

Note: This strip is perforated 12½ all round with an additional vertical line perforated 11 at left creating the mixed perforations error. The original block contained seven stamps showing the mixed perforations. It has been broken down in to three pieces of which this is the largest multiple known. Although the compound perforation error was listed by Stanley Gibbons in 1959 it wasn't recognised as a separate mixed perforation error until its listing by Brusden White in 2004.

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Sold for
£1,600

Starting price
£1600