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Auction: 22010 - The 'Lionheart' Collection of New Zealand - Part I
Lot: 187

(x) New Zealand
Printed by John Davies in Auckland
1864 Watermark "N.Z.", Imperforate
2d. pale blue (Plate I, worn), a block of four in a deep rich shade, unused with large part original gum, pin-pricked with black marks, clear to large margins mainly all round though touched on a couple of sides and the lower right stamp with small piece of the margin torn away just cutting into the design; horizontal crease between, otherwise fine and believed to be the largest known block with just one other, the subsequent lot in this sale, recorded. S.G. 98, £6,800+

provenance:
R.C. Agabeg, March 1971
John R. 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.

Estimate
£5,000 to £7,000

Starting price
£4500