New Zealand 1899-1903 2s blue-green plate proof, SG269New Zealand 1899 1903 2s blue green, Waterlow plate proof from the "colonial" plate, imperforate block of 4 on ungummed wove, no watermark, with traces of adjoining impressions at right, SG269. A fine mint block. The upper left stamp has a faint tone spot which is immaterial to overall quality and still very fine. Provenance: Ex Michael Burberry, the recognised authority on varieties of the New Zealand pictorial stamps. and tentatively plated as R1 2