NORFOLK ISLAND 1961 10/- SPECIMEN ERROR FRAME RETOUCH MNH

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10/- TROPIC BIRD 'SPECIMEN' OVERPRINT - UPPER LEFT POSITION - WITH PRINTING ERROR
VARIETY S.G.V6: FRAME RETOUCH ABOVE "R" OF "NORFOLK" - R.5/4
Sc.#41 (specimen), S.G. 36s - V6
Issued 14 August 1961
CHOICE DE LUXE QUALITY - PRISTINE NEVER HINGED (UNMOUNTED) MINT CONDITION
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NEVER OFFERED ANYWHERE UNTIL NOW !!!
The impressive 10-shilling Norfolk Island "Tropic Bird" stamp was printed by the Australian Government Printer in sheets of 80 (10 x 8), and issued by the Norfolk Post Office on 14 August 1961, as part of its permanent (definitive) stamp series.
WHAT MAKES THIS A REAL RARITY ?
(a) the stamp - exceptional quality (b) the specimen overprint - scarcest Upper Left position (c) the frame retouch - occurs once per sheet of 80 stamps
The Government Printer released the stamp with
three different
SPECIMEN overprints, positioned at the lower right, lower center, and the upper left. The UPPER LEFT POSITION is by far the
scarcest
of these SPECIMEN overprints (see all current SPECIMEN offers of this stamp).
IN ADDITION . . . .
The
weak top frame line
of the design was
retouched
on the printing plate above the "R" of "NORFOLK" on
stamp 4 of row 5
- so only 1 out of 80 stamps per sheet was retouched!  A Scarce as a normal stamp, MUCH scarcer yet with the SPECIMEN overprint, and EXTREMELY RARE with the retouch !
The SPECIMEN overprint of this stamp is
much scarcer
than the normal stamp (Sc#41, S.G. 36, normal stamp cat. £42 = , selling price A0.00 in Australia), and
this
is the scarcest of the three SPECIMEN overprint stamps, placing this stamp in the RARE category.
NOTE: The
same
printing plate was
also used
for
both types
(I and II) of the on 10/-
decimal currency surcharge stamps
of 14 February 1966, so the retouched frame line
also
occurs on these stamps, Sc.#82 and 82a, S.G. 71 and 71a (S.G. Norfolk Island V6) - see images.
P L U  S
. . . . .
IF only 10 sheets of EACH of the three SPECIMEN types (10 x 3 X 80 stamps  = 2,400 TOTAL SPECIMEN STAMPS) were surcharged and given to the UNIVERSAL POSTAL UNION (UPU) there would
still HAVE BEEN only 30 SPECIMEN
(1 FROM EACH SHEET)
stamps
IDENTIFIED almost 60 years ago!
Could this be the scarcest Norfolk Island stamp known
? -
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!
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