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Auction: 22020 - The Robin Gwynn Collection of New Zealand
Lot: 47

(x) New Zealand
The Sideface Issues
1882-1900 Second Issue
perf. 12 x 11½ (6mm. Watermark)
1d. rose, a block of forty-eight from the foot of the sheet with gutter margin at left and printer's guide mark in margin at foot; some perforation reinforcement in a few places and some peripheral creasing to margins. Fine with the majority unmounted mint, the largest recorded block of any 6mm. watermark value. S.G. 187, £2,400+; CP D2a, $9,360

Note: The largest known multiple of any value of the 6mm. issue, this is illustrated and discussed in The New Zealand Stamp Collector, 90:2 (2010), p.39

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

Sold for
£500

Starting price
£500