Lot 6287 o
New Zealand, 1864, Queen Victoria "Chalon Head", 6d red brown, imperf, N Z watermark, horizontal pair (R. 12/1-2), with marginal line watermark at left, good to enormous margins with traces of two adjoining stamps at top and at right, strong color and impressions, indistinct bar cancellations; the left-hand stamp with a small thin and light creases, beautiful and Very Fine appearance, ex-Chalon, Christie's Robson Lowe, February 1989, lot 317AJoseph Hackmey, Spink Shreves, February 2009, lot 1328. Scott No. 29. Campbell Paterson No. A5f.
SG No. 99 £1,400 as singles ($1,840).
THE ONLY RECORDED MULTIPLE OF THIS ELUSIVE STAMP.