Previous Lot Next Lot

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: 1347

(x) New Zealand
The Postal History of the Province of Otago
Mail via Suez and Southampton to the United Kingdom
1859 (7 Jan.) envelope to Scotland, bearing 1857 1/- on blue paper bisected vertically and cancelled by indistinct "15" obliterator, despatch and arrival (1.4) c.d.s. on reverse; fine and very rare. S.G. 6a, £26,000. Photo

Note: From March 1857 a new Australian Packet service via Suez was announced in the New Zealand Gazette and new postal rates were charged with 6d. for the first ½ ounce. For the first time, payment in New Zealand covered the total charge, which included delivery in the United Kingdom. This was a monthly service between Melbourne, Sydney and Suez. Mail was transported to Alexandria though the Mediterranean via Gibraltar and Southampton

This cover is number R21 of the twenty six recorded Richardson bisect covers reported by Gerald Ellott

provenance:
C.F. Bulley, Melbourne
"Chalon", November 1968
Phillips & Son, September 1990

Subject to 5% tax on Hammer Price in addition to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.

Estimate
£12,000 to £15,000