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Auction: 9037 - The "Pierron" Collection of British Commonwealth Missing Colours
Lot: 1489

New Zealand 1960-66 Pictorials 3d. with yellow, green and yellow-brown omitted, fine. Pierron NZ1570PRa, £750. Photo Estimate £ 300-400 Note: Examples come from a proof sheet printed in November 1959 and subsequently released as part of De La Rue´s archive. The slate-blue shade of the proof doesn´t exactly match any of the five acknowledged shades from the 14 issued plate printings. The proofs are gummed, on watermarked paper and perforated identically to normals. Proofs of the other colours used also exist. A composite proof exists with plate numbers 1-1-1-1 (the colours being in the order yellow, green, blue, brown rather than yellow, brown, green blue as issued)

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