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Auction: 22010 - The 'Lionheart' Collection of New Zealand - Part I
Lot: 170

(x) New Zealand
Printed by John Davies in Auckland
1862 Provisional Printing on Pelure Paper, No Watermark
6d. black-brown, an enormous single example showing sheet margin at left, traces of adjoining stamps at top and at foot, and a large margin at right, neatly cancelled "1" at Auckland clear of the Queen's face. A superb and quite extraordinary example. Almost certainly the finest single recorded. R.P.S. (1983) and B.P.A. (1991) Certificates. S.G. 85

provenance:
"Antipodes", October 1988
"Samos", June 1991
Joseph Hackmey, February 2009


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Sold for
£800

Starting price
£900