In late July Spink London offered for sale the Robin Gwynn collection of New Zealand. The announcement of the auction prompted a lot of excitement and many enquiries from across the globe, with hundreds of collectors keen to add key pieces from Robin’s collection into their own. One major area of interest for Robin was the Second Sideface issue, a seldom offered but very beautiful and understated design. This part of the collection could be said to be one of the most interesting and diverting for collectors, particularly as the issue is infrequently offered for sale in such detail and scale. One of the most recent significant holdings of this issue was that offered in the Sir Gawaine Baillie auction almost twenty years ago. Robin’s collection featured many rare and unique items including watermark and perforation varieties and a particularly strong section of adverts on stamps.