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Auction: 9037 - The "Pierron" Collection of British Commonwealth Missing Colours
Lot: 1526

New Zealand 1968 (7 Mar.) Health 3c.+1c. with margin at foot showing rings, with red omitted, fine. Very rare. With normal miniature sheet for comparison. Pierron NZ1776MCa, £2,250; C.P. T40b(X); S.G. 888a, £2,250. Photo Estimate £ 1,500-1,800 Note: The missing red results in the loss of the rightmost Olympic ring and the swimmer´s skin tone appears yellowish rather than pinkish. Examples come from a split miniature sheet of six. Top and bottom marginal Olympic traffic light singles are known provenance: Sir Gawaine Baillie, February 2006

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