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Auction: 22010 - The 'Lionheart' Collection of New Zealand - Part I
Lot: 164

(x) New Zealand
Printed by John Davies in Auckland
1862 Provisional Printing on Pelure Paper, No Watermark
1d. orange-vermilion, a horizontal strip of five with just clear to very large margins all round and showing portion of adjoining stamp at right, all the more remarkable given the miss-alignemnet of the impressions from left to right, neatly cancelled with five strikes of "dunedin" within oval of bars; virtually free of imperfections which is quite extraordinary given the delicate nature of the paper used; an exceptional strip, almost certanly the largest multiple of any pelure printing. Holcombe Certificate (1988). S.G. 81, £12,500+

provenance:
Charles Lathrop Pack, December 1944, when a strip of six
Caspary, October 1958
John Boker
"Antipodes", October 1988
Christie's Robson Lowe, October 1989
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