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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: 1342

(x) New Zealand
The Postal History of the Province of Otago
Mail to Australia
Victoria
1861 (11 Dec.) envelope (213x94mm.) from Dunedin "Per Aldinga" to Melbourne, bearing 1857-63 6d. brown (large margins on two sides) very lightly cancelled "18" and most unusually cancelled "10/12/61 Owen O'Callaghan Russell Street Barracks Melbourne" in manuscript by the recipient, despatch and arrival (17.12) c.d.s. on reverse; some faults though a most unusual item. Photo

Note: From 1861 the Provinces of Otago and Canterbury entered into a contract with the Inter-Colonial Royal Mail packet Co. for a service between Melbourne and Port Chalmers

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Estimate
£400 to £500