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Auction: 22010 - The 'Lionheart' Collection of New Zealand - Part I
Lot: 16

(x) New Zealand
1855 (20 July) Imperforate on Large Star Watermarked Paper
London Printing
1/- pale yellow-green on blued paper, horizontal pair with huge margins all around and with portions of the adjoining adhesives visible at top and left; neatly cancelled by a single central strike of barred oval '10' of Wellington, a superb and fresh multiple, one of the finest pairs extant. B.P.A. Certificate (1993). S.G. 3, £11,000; Campbell Paterson, A6a

provenance:
Baron Philipp von Ferrary, 1922
Dr. Mario Tomasini
Maurice Burrus, July 1963
Major Henry Dumas, Spink, March 2000
Joseph Hackmey, February 2009



Subject to 5% tax on Hammer Price in addition to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium.

Sold for
£6,500

Starting price
£7000