One-of-a-Kind NZ Stamp Could Fetch Tens of Thousands at Auction

A printing error and the fact that only one is known to be in existence will undoubtedly excite the world’s philatelists when the stamp goes on sale.
One-of-a-Kind NZ Stamp Could Fetch Tens of Thousands at Auction
The Taupo invert. Courtesy of NZ Post
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One of New Zealand’s, if not the world’s, rarest stamps is to be sold at auction in September.

Called the Taupō Invert, it would have been one of a sheet of 80 that were printed off and then found to have an error: the centre was inverted.

Rex Widerstrom
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