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Auction: 20039 - The Gary Diffen Collection of Australian Colonies Errors Part 2 - Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia
Lot: 218

(x) Western Australia
Note: The following imperforate watermark errors are not listed in the Stanley Gibbons catalogue. Collectors are referred to The Philatelic Collection of the Western Australian Museum by Brian Pope at page 68 for an illustrative listing of the watermark orientations of the stamps of Western Australia
1857-59 Issue
2d. brown-black on red, error printed both sides, the second printing upright, margins close or touching, unused. RPSV Certificate (2011). S.G. 15a, under-catalogued at £11,000. Photo

Note: This stamp is a great rarity in unused condition with only one other badly cut into example recorded. This error, in unused condition, has been absent from every major collection of Western Australia.

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Sold for
£7,000

Starting price
£6000