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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: 1337

(x) New Zealand
The Postal History of the Province of Otago

Mail to Australia
Victoria
1869 (7 July) envelope registered from Lawrence to Melbourne, bearing 1864-67 6d. brown and 1/- yellow-green both lightly cancelled "017" with despatch c.d.s. alongside, large "registered" handstamp in red at upper left, "registered/g.p.o./dunedin n.z." oval datestamp (8.7) alongside arrival c.d.s. (17.7) at lower left; both adhesives with a small fault, and the envelope with a vertical fold clear of the adhesives and handstamps. A most attractive franking. R.P.S. Certificate (2006). Photo

provenance:
Christie's Robson Lowe, October 1989
John Woolfe, October 2006
Joseph Hackmey, February 2009

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Sold for
£500