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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: 1397

(x) New Zealand
The Postal History of the Province of Otago
Gold Field Offices and Cancellations
Mount Ida
1869 (12 Mar.) envelope, complete with letter headed "Eweburn Station, Mount Ida", "via Suez and Southampton" to Scotland, bearing 1864-67 6d. red-brown very lightly cancelled "037" and with despatch, Dunedin (13.3) and arrival (23.5) c.d.s. on reverse. Believed to be the earliest recorded mail from this gold mining settlement. Photo

Note: The goldfield at Mount Ida was worked from the early 1860s. A Post Office was opened in late August 1863

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Estimate
£200 to £250