(x) Tasmania 1871-91 Watermark Double-lined Numeral 6d. bright violet, perf 11½, a horizontal pair imperforate between, unused with a trace of gum, fine. The finest of the three examples recorded, one of which is torn and the other badly creased. The only unused imperforate between error of the Tasmania Chalons. S.G. 138b, £4500. Photo Note: The "Stanley Gibbons Monthly Journal" of April 1897 reported this error after inspecting the Tapling Collection, and it was catalogued by Stanley Gibbons in 1994.
(x) Tasmania 1871-91 Watermark Double-lined Numeral 6d. bright violet, perf 11½, a horizontal pair imperforate between, unused with a trace of gum, fine. The finest of the three examples recorded, one of which is torn and the other badly creased. The only unused imperforate between error of the Tasmania Chalons. S.G. 138b, £4500. Photo Note: The "Stanley Gibbons Monthly Journal" of April 1897 reported this error after inspecting the Tapling Collection, and it was catalogued by Stanley Gibbons in 1994.
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