MISPRINT ON STAMP
A NEW EAT.AXI) 4d. DISCOVERY AFTER 27 YEARS The 1.0n.10n Times of, February 23 announces that a rare misprint of a Now Zealand postage stamp, which had passed unnoted by philatelists for some 27 years, has just been brought to light and certified as authentic by t;ho expert committee of the Royal Philatelic Society. London. it. is the 4d pictorial stamp of 190% with the central view of Lake Tattpo printed inadvertently upside down, and will shortly be offered for sale in a London stamp auction. Th 0 only known sample of this printer's error is so heavily cancelled that it. is not surprising it should have, escaped notice until now. the centre portion being almost obscured by the postmark.
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Feilding Star, Volume 8, Issue 2399, 8 April 1931, Page 5
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123MISPRINT ON STAMP Feilding Star, Volume 8, Issue 2399, 8 April 1931, Page 5
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