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Auction: 19012 - The 'Pegasus' Collection of Important Classic New Zealand
Lot: 670

The Chalon Issues
1862-64 Printed by J. Davies at the G.P.O. in Auckland on Large Star Watermarked Paper
Serrated Perf. 16 or 18 at Nelson
Unused
3d. brown-lilac with marginal line watermark at left, serrates intact on all sides and of fresh colour, unused with large part original gum; trace of thinning at top though of fine appearance and an appealing example of this very rare stamp. R.P.S. Certificate (1981). S.G. 62, £6,000. Photo

provenance:
Charles Lathrop Pack, December 1944
"Antipodes", October 1988
Joseph Hackmey, February 2009

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Sold for
£3,500