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Auction: 9037 - The "Pierron" Collection of British Commonwealth Missing Colours
Lot: 1367

Malaysia Selangor 1965 (15 Nov.) Orchids 5c. lower right corner block of eighteen (6x3) with plate numbers, all but the first column with yellow (flower) omitted, fine. Pierron MS276MCa, £1,105; S.G. 138b, £975+ Estimate £ 500-600 Note: The missing yellow affects the flower and results in the loss of green from the leaves. The error is known in a bottom left traffic light block missing the yellow dot and in a plate block (normally 1B–1B–1B–1B) missing 1B referencing yellow. Further, the error is known to have occurred on columns six to ten of a pane. provenance: Sir Gawaine Baillie, November 2006

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