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Auction: 20039 - The Gary Diffen Collection of Australian Colonies Errors Part 2 - Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia
Lot: 262

(x) Western Australia
1902-11 Watermark V over Crown
Perf. 12½
4d. chestnut with watermark upright and inverted, centred to lower left, fine unused with part original gum. Rare, four examples recorded with another in the Royal collection. RPSV Certificate (2013). S.G. 119a, under-catalogued at £600. Photo

Note: This error was known to collectors in the early 1920s and was noted in the Stanley Gibbons catalogue in 1928 before being listed in 1984.

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£400

Starting price
£400