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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: 1360

(x) New Zealand
The Postal History of the Province of Otago
Mail via Marseilles to the United Kingdom
1865 (16 Feb.) envelope from Port Chalmers "via Marseilles" to England showing, on reverse, an "all over" advertisement in pink for the Royal Hotel, George St., bearing 1864 watermark NZ perf. 12½ 6d. red-brown and 1864-67 watermark Star 2d. Plate I worn vertical pair with stepped perforations, all with very light indistinct numeral cancellations, London Paid c.d.s. (12.4) alongside, the reverse with despatch and Dorchester (12.4) c.d.s.; the stamps lifted and hinged back in place. An unusual combination franking. Holcombe Certificate (1988). Photo

Note: Both this and the following cover were carried on the McMeckan, Blackwood & Co. service to Melbourne and then by the P&O Australian service

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£270