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Auction: 9037 - The "Pierron" Collection of British Commonwealth Missing Colours
Lot: 1477

New Zealand 1960-66 Pictorials 3d. lower right corner block of twenty (5x4) with imprint and plate numbers, the third and fourth rows with yellow omitted as well as the colour bar in margin, fine. Pierron NZ1570MCa, £1,400; C.P. O5a(Z)/(W); S.G. 785a, £1,360. Photo Estimate £ 650-750 Note: The error, which results in the loss of colour from the petals, occurs in two distinct shades: yellow–brown–green–blue and orange-yellow–deep brown–green–deep blue. It´s known to have occurred partially on the fourth row and completely from the fifth row of a sheet in the orange-yellow–deep brown–green–deep blue shade. It is also known to have affected rows 18 and 19 of one sheet, rows 18 up to at least row 16 of a second sheet, and the top row only of a third sheet in the yellow–brown–green–blue shade

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