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Auction: 16042 - New Zealand, The Professor Derek Diamond Collection featuring 2d. Chalons and the 1898-1908 Pictorial Issue
Lot: 381

New Zealand
1898-1908 Pictorial Issues
1902-1907 Third Local Printing, Watermarked, Mixed Perforations
6d. rose-carmine block of six (2x3), the centre horizontal pair replaced with an imperforate pair, probably as a result of the centre lines of perfs. had become too fragile and patched with the first stamps that came to hand, the imperf. pair, and parts of the adjacent stamps partially separated by knife cuts, unmounted mint; upper right stamp with a thin though of fine appearance. A monumental rarity. E14j, $10,050++; S.G. 344, £2,550++. Diamond page 135. Photo

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