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Auction: 9037 - The "Pierron" Collection of British Commonwealth Missing Colours
Lot: 1485

New Zealand 1960-66 Pictorials 3d. lower left corner block of twelve (4x3) showing imprint and plate numbers, the bottom row with yellow-brown omitted, fine. Pierron NZ1570MCc, £700+; C.P. O5a(Y); S.G. 785c, £680 Estimate £ 350-450 Note: The missing brown results in the loss of colour from the plant stems and shading detail from the petals. Examples are known in the orange-yellow–pale brown–green–dull blue shade. The error is known to have affected the bottom row only of a sheet from a plate 2–1–2–5 printing

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