The Mahendra Sagar Collection of Inverted Centers
October 5-6, 2011
| Images | Description | Current Bid |
 | Lot #206 BRITISH COMMONWEALTH NEW ZEALAND 1973 4c Purri Moth, bright green (wing veins) inverted, booklet pane of six, all six examples with the error, contained in an unexploded booklet (SG SB28var), the other 4c pane in the booklet is normal, interestingly the error pane was inserted upside down in the booklet, pane with perforations all around, n.h, v.f., with 2002 David Brandon cert. Only 20 (!) examples of the variety inverted bright green reported, the error in a full booklet is probably unique (SG 011a)  Catalog #573var | Unsold |
 | Lot #207 BRITISH COMMONWEALTH NEW ZEALAND 2004 Olympic Games $2 Peter Snell (gold medalist for 800 meters in Rome in 1960), center inverted (as the prismatic plastic design is upside down). This spectacular error was found in a local Hamilton post office and it is believed that only a single pane of 16 was issued. When a customer, who went to buy a stamp for his overseas mail noticed the error, he came back and purchased the remaining seven stamps (by this time half the pane had already been sold to public and are likely to have been used on mail and subsequently discarded). One of the examples has been sold back to New Zealand Post and is currently displayed in the New Zealand National Museum at Te Papa as the most significant NZ stamp error after the 1905 4d Taupo inverted center error. The current error was found shortly after release and once NZ Post heard of this problem, the remaining stamps were withdrawn from circulation. This Error has been extensively written up in the NZ Stamp Collector publication (Royal Philatelic Society of New Zea ** Catalog #1971var | Price Realized $2,500.00 |
