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Auction: 21019 - Important Stamps and Covers of the World
Lot: 71

(x) Queensland
1866-67 litho 5/- pale rose vertical pair, imperforate between, cancelled by "gpo" in bars in both red and in black, slightly thinned otherwise fine. One of two examples recorded in private hands with another pair in the Royal Collection. R.P.S. Certificate (2020) states faded though this is the same for all known examples. S.G. 58a, £9000. Photo

Note: This error was first reported in the "London Philatelist" in July 1892 and listed by Stanley Gibbons in 1917. All three pairs are faulty and derive from the same block. This is the finer of the two pairs available in private hands.

provenance:
C.J.L. Snowden, February 1953
Nelson, October 2012


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Sold for
£4,200

Starting price
£2800