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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: 1394

(x) New Zealand
The Postal History of the Province of Otago
Gold Field Offices and Cancellations
Manuherikia Junction
1863 (Jan.) envelope to Ireland, bearing 1862 6d. black-brown with margins in places, twice cancelled "024" in oval of bars and showing a fine strike of the "manuherikia/Crown/junction. n.z." (reversed "z") intaglio mail bag seal handstamp partially over-cancelled by neat London Paid c.d.s. (17.4), Dunedin (19.1) and Kilkenny (18.4) c.d.s. all on face; the envelope and adhesive with faults though a very rare usage of a mail bag seal that was pressed in to service prior to the arrival of the Goldfield datestamp. A remarkable cover, believed unique. R.P.S. Certificate (2006). Photo

Note: This Goldfield was located near the junction of the Kawarau and Clutha Rivers. A Post Office was opened on 1 December 1862

provenance:
John Woolfe, October 2006
Joseph Hackmey, February 2009

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Sold for
£700