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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: 1409

(x) New Zealand
The Postal History of the Province of Otago

Gold Field Offices and Cancellations
Wakamarina
1864 (31 Oct.) envelope (small part flap missing) to Lake Wakatipu, bearing 1864-67 2d. pale blue Plate I worn cancelled by partially legible "goldfield/marlborough" c.d.s. with arrival c.d.s. (11.11) alongside, the reverse with a further more readable example of the Goldfield datestamp together with Havelock (31.10), Picton (1.11) and part Dunedin c.d.s.; a scarce cover from one goldfield to another and the only example recorded. Photo

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Estimate
£2,500 to £3,000