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Auction: 22020 - The Robin Gwynn Collection of New Zealand
Lot: 87

(x) New Zealand
The Sideface Issues
1882-1900 Second Issue
1895-1900 Perforated 11
variety single-lined Watermark Sideways
½d black, 1d rose (faults), and 2d lilac (repaired tear at left), all with single-lined NZ and Star watermark sideways. The circumstances in which these 'abnormals' were produced are not known, but the three stamps comprise a set which is New Zealand's rarest and which cannot be duplicated, since only one example each is known of both the ½d and the 2d. It was originally put together by Dr Ken McNaught RDP, and has never previously been offered for public sale. The set was discussed in The New Zealand Stamp Collector, March 2010.
The halfpenny value was discovered about a century ago and reported in the first volume of The Postage Stamps of New Zealand. Its unique nature was confirmed in Volume II of that handbook, and it remains the only known copy. It has previously been in the collections of G.W. Sides, J. Lex Robb, and K.J. McNaught.
Four copies of the one penny value were found by Dr McNaught, all used at Gisborne in September 1899, and reported in Volume II, p. 294. There may now be about six known copies in all.
The 2d value was reported in Volume IV, p. 45. No further example has since been found. S.G. 236ba, 237ca, 238ba, £8,000; CP D1e(T), D2p(S), D3k(Y), $24,000. R.P.S.N.Z. Certificates for the halfpenny and twopenny


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

Sold for
£9,500

Starting price
£3000

Sale 22020 Notices
There are only three stamps in the lot. The 1d dated September 1899 in the illustration is not in the lot