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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: 1406

(x) New Zealand
The Postal History of the Province of Otago
Gold Field Offices and Cancellations
Waitahuna
1862 (20 Feb.) envelope (overall age staining and flap missing), complete with letter, to Auckland, bearing 1857-63 2d. pale blue with clear to large margins and cancelled "081", Auckland arrival c.d.s. (2.3) at foot, Dunedin c.d.s. on reverse; the letter with interesting contents, headed "Waitahuna Goldfield", including "Am on the diggings, tho things dull, hoping for better times, new rushes taking place now and then, none of any great importance. One about 3 miles from here towards Gabriels sounds good, uncertain as yet". Photo

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Sold for
£1,900