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Auction: 16042 - New Zealand, The Professor Derek Diamond Collection featuring 2d. Chalons and the 1898-1908 Pictorial Issue
Lot: 22

New Zealand
1855-73 Chalon Two Pence
1862-64 Watermark Large Star, Imperforate
2d. deep blue strip of three with clear to large margins nearly all round, cancelled by three strikes of the Crowned Circle "paid/at/christchurch canterbury" handstamp. Fine and exceptionally rare with only one other (far inferior) 2d. strip known with this cancellation. Photo

Note: This handstamp is only known as a cancellation

provenance:
H. Gordon Kaye, April 1991
Spink, October 1997


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Estimate
£1,500 to £2,000