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Auction: 20039 - The Gary Diffen Collection of Australian Colonies Errors Part 2 - Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia
Lot: 256

(x) Western Australia
1893 (Feb.) "one penny" on 3d. cinnamon, error surcharge double, unused with part original gum showing the green surcharge ink smeared all over the reverse. The only recorded example. B.P.A. Certificate (2007). S.G. 108a, under-catalogued at £2000. Photo

Note: Although listed by Stanley Gibbons in 1917, there are no contemporary reports on the discovery of this error until an article in "Philately from Australia" in March 1949. The most famous error of the De La Rue series.

provenance:
Mike Brachi
Lord Vestey, May 2015

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Sold for
£1,200

Starting price
£1200