Rushstamps have secured 11 copies of the 50p Deep Ultramarine large format Machin issued 1 February 1973 on so-called Post Office phosphorised paper featuring a complete offset (reversed image) on the gummed side. A block of four last appeared at a November 2005 Grosvenor auction.

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In the space of a few months, two previously unrecorded used examples of the 6d Technology stamp issued 19 September 1966 have appeared missing red (the Minis). The first, with Harlow cancel and 25 OCT 1966 date, sold for CHF 5,400 at auction at Corinphila (Switzerland) in December 2007. The second, with Gilford (Co Down) cancel, was discovered some time ago by a collector in Northern Ireland who only recently reported the find to Stamp & Coin Mart magazine. Contemporary reports indicate rows seven to nine of a single sheet were affected by the loss of red. The Harlow-cancelled example has identical design centring to all known mint copies of the error, and consequently may come from the same sheet (although contemporary reports indicate the sheet yielded only mint copies). However, the Gilford-cancelled example is very different indicating another sheet was affected to some degree.

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Issued to coincide with the decimalisation of Malta's currency on 16 May 1972, a pane imperforate to right margin of the 1c design from the set recently sold on the atOncer.com auction site. The error, previously unrecorded prior to its appearance in late December 2007, affects all ten stamps in the right column of a 1C–1C–1C–1C pane.

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Campbell Paterson – producers of the Specialised Catalogue of New Zealand Stamps – have acquired a collection of modern New Zealand errors and varieties which includes a number of unrecorded positional pieces, unique blocks and other scarce items.

The collection includes a 1960 Kowhai 3d plate block with yellow missing from two rows, another Kowhai plate block with brown missing from the bottom row, a block of the 1960 Flag 9d with red missing from two columns, a 1967 Kowhai 2½d imperforate plate block, a 1968 Timber Industry 10c counter coil join pair with one missing green, and a 1973 Puriri Moth 4c with inverted wing veins.

Further details from CP on +64 9 379 3086.

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Missing red-orange from the 3p Anniversaries of 1971 used on-piece sold recently on Ebay for £325. The error, which affects the lapels of the nurse's coat, was previously only recorded mint. The used single is cancelled Stockport, Cheshire, with a 10 SEP 1971 date. The chances of other used copies with the error surfacing after more than 35 years since issue are increasingly remote.

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