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Auction: 22010 - The 'Lionheart' Collection of New Zealand - Part I
Lot: 201

(x) New Zealand
Printed by John Davies in Auckland
1864 Watermark "N.Z.", Imperforate
Perforated 12½ (Comb) at Auckland

1/- yellow-green, well-centred with light barred oval cancellation, small tear at top; rare and fine appearance. Fewer than ten examples recorded and vastly undercatalogued. R.P.S. Certificate (1938). S.G.109, £2,750

provenance:
Major Henry Dumas, March 2000
Dr. David Patterson, April 2019

Subject to 5% tax on Hammer Price in addition to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium.

Sold for
£3,200

Starting price
£1300