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Auction: 9037 - The "Pierron" Collection of British Commonwealth Missing Colours
Lot: 1438

Malta 1966 (7 Oct.) Christmas 1/3d. lower right corner block of six (2x3) with plate numbers, all with gold omitted, fine. Pierron MA756MCa, £650; S.G. 378a, £420 Estimate £ 200-250 Note: The missing gold results in the loss of the halo, starlight, asterisk between ´CHRISTMAS´ and ´1966´, straw from the manger, and detail from Mary´s shawl. The error exists in a plate block (normally 1C–1C–1C–1C) with the 1C referencing gold missing. It is also known to have occurred on a 1A–1A–1A–1A pane

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£200