It would be SG196, and does not have numerals in the corners. Perhaps your Scott number refers to the example Rodney posted (with the white background).
I am allergic to chemicals, so if the cancel was altered, I cannot say yes or no. The cancel appears to be colored "purple" with an inverted "a", and with a normal "d". The watermark is visible under strong direct lighting.
Actually, if it's perf 12, it should be an SG 170 of 1882. SG 196 was comb perf 12½,13. Doesn't make any difference to the catalogue value, though: £1.75 in either case.
If you get a computer whiz to enhance the strike, I think you will find it "GA" I thought it may have been the "PA" of PAID a fiscal use. "GA" doesn't make any sense to me. Probably fiscal use, I have no experience with fiscal use of Queensland stamps, but the 1861 stamps have a warning in Gibbons of cleaned fiscal used stamps.
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