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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: 1359

(x) New Zealand
The Postal History of the Province of Otago
Mail via Marseilles to the United Kingdom
1862 (15 Aug.) entire (no side flaps) from Dunedin to Scotland, bearing 1862 1d. orange-vermilion, 2d. deep blue, 6d. black-brown and 1/- yellow-green pair and a single all lightly cancelled "18", showing framed "missent/to/ayr" in blue at foot and, on reverse, despatch, Glasgow (15.11) and Stewarton (15.11) c.d.s. A very rare and colourful franking for a 1½-1¾ ounce letter. R.P.S.N.Z. Certificate (2004) states that the stamps have been lifted, the face panel cleaned and the stamps replaced, slightly misplaced. Photo

provenance:
H. Gordon Kaye, November 1991

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Sold for
£2,300