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Auction: 20039 - The Gary Diffen Collection of Australian Colonies Errors Part 2 - Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia
Lot: 222

(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 Indian red, error printed both sides, the second printing inverted, margins close to touching, fine used. Scarce. S.G. 16a, £900. Photo

Note: Early colonial collectors were aware of the printed both sides error and it was first recorded in the "Philatelic Record" in March 1881 and listed by Stanley Gibbons in 1891. It occurs in two formats. The majority of examples have the second impression printed upright. Those with a second impression printed inverted are much scarcer. Stamps printed on Indian red paper are much more elusive.

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