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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: 1346

(x) New Zealand
The Postal History of the Province of Otago
Mail via Suez and Southampton to the United Kingdom
1858 (22 Jan.) envelope from Bluff Harbor to Ireland, bearing 1856 2d. blue on blue paper vertical strip of three (centre stamp with a pre-use horizontal crease) with margins in places and strongly cancelled with two manuscript ink lines, despatch and arrival (7.4) c.d.s. on reverse. R.P.S. Certificate (1978). Photo

Note: Bluff Harbor opened on 1 March 1856. The office moved to Invercargill on 20 November 1858. It reopened at Campbelltown on 1 March 1863 when the name was changed to Bluff

provenance:
Henry Dumas, March 2000
"Emerald", 2003
Mark Benvie, May 2011

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Sold for
£850