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Auction: 9037 - The "Pierron" Collection of British Commonwealth Missing Colours
Lot: 1079

Australia 1974 (24 July) Non-Olympic Sports, 7c. Golf, a horizontal strip of four from the right of the sheet, the last two stamps with black (face value and inscription) omitted, the adjoining stamp with minute traces of the black and a similar almost complete omission on the first stamp, fine. Very rare. With normal for comparison. Pierron AU1146MCa, £3,000+; BW 671c; S.G. 573a, £3,000+. Photo Estimate £ 1,800-2,200 Note: The three rightmost columns of two panes and the two rightmost on another were affected by the error. The latter was purchased at Concord in New South Wales. quantity: 25 mint provenance: Sir Gawaine Baillie, July 2005

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