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Auction: 1026 - British Empire Stamps & Covers from the Vestey Collection
Lot: 487

New Zealand Later Issues 1898-1908 Pictorial Issues and 1d. Universal 1901-06 1/2d. Mount Cook and 1d. Universal mint collection neatly mounted and written-up on twenty-one pages, 237 stamps with a range of blocks of four or larger including 1901 (Jan.) 1d. blocks of four (3); 1901 (Feb.-Dec.) perf. 11 1d. (20 with four blocks of four, three with re-entries), perf. 14 1/2d. and 1d. blocks of four, 1d. horizontal pair imperforate vertically, perf. 14x11 1d. pair and perf. 11 and 14 mixed 1/2d. blocks of four (2) and 1d. vertical pair; 1901 (Dec.) perf. 11 1/2d. block of four and a pair, perf. 14 1/2d. (5 with a block of four), perf. 14x11 or 11x14 group, and mixed perfs. 1d. pair; 1902 (Jan.) perf. 14 1/2d. corner block of thirty-five, 1/2d. (3) and 1d. blocks of four; 1902 (Apr.) perf. 11 1/2d., perf. 14 1d. deep carmine block of four and mixed perfs. 1/2d. and 1d.; 1904 "Dot" plate perf. 11x14 1d. pairs and mixed perfs. 1d. lower right corner block of four; 1905-06 slot-machine S.G. 361, 365 pair, 366 and 367; 1906 New Waterlow plates perf. 14 1d. (5 with a corner block of four with sheet number), New Royle plates 1d. perf. 11, 1d. perf. 14x14 1/2 and 1d. mixed perfs. marginal block of four with part arrow; generally fresh and fine Estimate £ 800-1,000

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