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Auction: 16042 - New Zealand, The Professor Derek Diamond Collection featuring 2d. Chalons and the 1898-1908 Pictorial Issue
Lot: 351

New Zealand
1898-1908 Pictorial Issues
1898-1903 First Local Printing, Watermarked, Compound Perf. 11x14
Issued Stamps
3d. yellow-brown, compound perf. 11x14, cancelled by part Otahuhu 7 June 1902 datestamp; very fine and the sole recorded example of a compound perforation on Pirie paper. E9ba, $12,500; S.G. unlisted. Diamond page 112. Photo

Note: This remarkable stamp was discovered by Colin Hamilton in 1977. It has been suggested that as a note of explanation a sheet of the perf. 11 unwatermarked paper was detected without vertical perforations and put aside. later this single sheet was given its vertical perforations in the new perf. 14 machines then engaged on the ½d. stamps

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Sold for
£4,500