Sale No: 249
Lot No: 1193
Symbol: F
Cat No: 78a
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TEN PENCE: 'TEN PENCE' in Blue on 9d yellow SG 78a with the Watermark Reversed, Overprint Sub-Type VI (First 'E' of 'PENCE' Higher), part-Port Adelaide cds of DE8/68, Cat £1700. RPSofL Certificate (1919). Absent from 'Besancon'. Harry Lower's and Michael Blake's examples sold for $2990 & $2445 respectively.
A rare stamp that is seriously underrated, in part because it is listed by Gibbons under the Large Star Watermark issue. Often characterised as an 'error', in the catalogue for the John Griffiths' sale, it was noted that this was a trial printing on the paper to be used for the new De La Rue 2d SG 152, issued in August 1868. We consider that it was either a trial printing or an emergency printing perhaps inadvertently on the new paper, and expect that all examples have the watermark reversed.
Don Pearce believes that only two sheets were printed, a total of only 480 stamps. Gary Diffen has recorded about 40 examples, some of which are defective or 'dwarf' stamps. No unused examples have been recorded.
Grade A (Image1)
Estimate AU$2,500
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Opening AU$ 1,900.00
Sold...AU$ 1,900.00
Closed..Nov-08-2022, 18:00:00 EST
Sold For 1900
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