Watch List notes:

Anton Teutenberg, Master Engraver (1840-1933), a selection of unique dies used to create his masterpieces, dating from c1870-early 1900s, includes obverse and reverse dies of St Patrick's Total Abstinence Society (32mm) (D&C.Q4, plate XXXI [these pieces]; Auckland Society of Arts (42mm) (D&C.M9 reverse, plate LIV); another, obverse and reverse die pair (37mm) (D&C.M8, plate XVIII); another, reverse die (44mm) for (D&C.M10, plate XVII) (Dilworth Ulster Institute) unfinished trial (35x27mm) (D&C.S11 obverse, plate XLIII [this piece]); Border Collie (34x17mm) (for D&C.N9, plate LVI [this piece]); Auckland Infantry (die 27x20mm) (cfD&C.P3, obverse centre, plate XXVII); similar as obverse Auckland Regatta (35mm) (cfD&C.R8, plate XXXIII); plus unidentified (4) foliage either side of two lines (55x37mm), Auckland (die 37x37mm), Maori carving (roll) (67x22mm), bird (19x11mm). All extremely fine and historically important. (14)

Ex Dunbar Sloane, Auckland auction, 14 November 2013, from the Teutenberg family collection.