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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: 1368

(x) New Zealand
The Postal History of the Province of Otago
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1867 (27 July) complete copy of "The Illustrated New Zealander" Dunedin newspaper from Waikouaiti, Otago to Gainford near Darlington and carried on the RMSP Co. 14th. voyage by the Rakaia, bearing 1864-67 1d. carmine-vermilion twice cancelled "O5"; the contents including an article on "Wild Bull Hunting in Australia", "Bishop Selwyn's Fairwell Address at Auckland" and illustrations of Bishop Harper, Otago Benevolent Institute and the Custom House, Dunedin. Small portion of face panel torn away, otherwise fine and one of only two examples of Chalon Head values recorded on newspapers. R.P.S. Certificate (2006). Photo

Note: The 14th. voyage was the last by the RMSP Co. to Southampton, thereafter Plymouth was used as it speeded up the mail landing

provenance:
John Woolfe, October 2006
Joseph Hackmey, February 2009
Mark Benvie, May 2011

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Sold for
£1,700