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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: 1386

(x) New Zealand
The Postal History of the Province of Otago
Gold Field Offices and Cancellations
Arrow River
1865 (July) chamois pouch with linen draw strings and fine large red wax seal inscribed "gold fields department/arrow/receivers office", complete with label (damaged) to T.C. Delacy, Gold Receiver at Dunedin. A remarkable item of Goldfields ephemera. Photo

Note: Gold was first discovered in the Arrow River from July 1862. A Post Office was opened in February 1863

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Sold for
£200