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Auction: 9037 - The "Pierron" Collection of British Commonwealth Missing Colours
Lot: 1706

Tanganyika — 10/- with reddish purple (diamond) omitted, margin at top, fine. With normal for comparison. Pierron TA236MCa, £175; S.G. 118a, £170 Estimate £ 60-80 Note: The missing reddish purple results the loss of shading from the diamond. A Bridger & Kay advert in the 29 November 1963 edition of Stamp Collecting offered mint examples of the error for £45 and stated a sheet of 100 had been discovered.

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