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Auction: 9011 - British Empire Stamps & Covers
Lot: 206

Cook Islands Aitutaki — 1/- vermilion, perf. 14x14 1/2, a lower right corner block of eighteen (6x3), Row 8-10/7-12, showing all the reported positions of the "missing dot" varieties, comprising "Tai" without dot, Rows 9-10/12, "Tiringi" without dot on second "i", Row 8/12 and Row 10/7, and "Tiringi" without dot on third "i", Row 8/11, very fine mint with the lower two rows unmounted. An exceptional positional multiple from only thirty-five sheets of these stamps that appear to have shown these varieties. Fine and very rare. S.G. 14/14ab-ad, £2,082+. Photo Estimate £ 1,000-1,200 provenance: William Frazer, 2003

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