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Auction: 9037 - The "Pierron" Collection of British Commonwealth Missing Colours
Lot: 1563

New Zealand 1973-76 Pictorials 4c. with PVAD gum, a lower right corner block of twenty-one (7x3), two with purple-brown omitted and eight others with varying amounts omitted, fine. A striking and unique multiple. Pierron NZ2023MCd, £4,500; C.P. P6c(X); S.G. 1011b. Photo Estimate £ 2,500-3,000 Note: The missing purple-brown results in the loss of the background. The error occurred at the bottom right of a sheet and completely affected two stamps while partially affecting a further eight. The error is thought to have occurred due to a stray piece of paper getting in the way during printing provenance: Paul Wales

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