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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: 1351

(x) New Zealand
The Postal History of the Province of Otago
Mail via Suez and Southampton to the United Kingdom
1862 (17 Sept.) envelope (stamp floated off) from Dunedin to Bristol, showing a good strike of the "Saved from the wreck of /the Colombo" framed handstamp (Ellott Type 1) partially over-cancelled by London Paid c.d.s. (31.10), despatch and arrival (31.12) c.d.s. on reverse. Photo

Note: The Colombo was wrecked on a coral beach off the Minicoy Island (Indian Ocean) on 26 August

provenance:
John Woolfe, December 2006

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Estimate
£400 to £500