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Auction: 14024 - The Philatelic Collector's Series Sale featuring the Award-winning Collection of Province of Otago Postal History formed by Greg Francis, and the Cliff Wheatley Rhodesias
Lot: 1320

(x) New Zealand
The Postal History of the Province of Otago
Ship Letter Mail Featuring Early Handstamps
1848 (28 Apr.) large part front from Edinburgh by "private Ship Blundell" to Nelson, rated "Pd 8d", "8" and "9" and showing framed "castle/street", Edinburgh and London (29.4) datestamps, a fine strike of the extremely rare "otakou/new zealand" oval datestamp (18.9) and Nelson arrival c.d.s. (27.10). One of only two recorded examples of the Otakou handstamp in private hands. Photo

Note: The Otago settlers did not approve of the name Otakou and in December 1848 it was changed to Otago

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Sold for
£700