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Auction: 9037 - The "Pierron" Collection of British Commonwealth Missing Colours
Lot: 1048

Australia 1971 (1 Oct.) Coil Stamps 7c. Sturt´s Desert Pea vertical strip of six, one with black omitted, two with black partially omitted and all with buff omitted, folded along central perforations, fine. Pierron AU937MCa, £2,250+; BW 535cc; S.G. 468ba, £1,700+. Photo Estimate £ 1,500-1,800 Note: Examples come from a group of faulty coils sold at the Adelaide general post office in 1971. The coils were split into strips of six with a mix of normal, partial and one completely missing black. In addition, green (and buff where it exists) is shifted on all examples. quantity: 12 mint provenance: Sir Gawaine Baillie, July 2005

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