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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: 1444

(x) New Zealand
The Postal History of the Province of Otago
Inland Mail
Mail Via Dunedin
1862 (6 Aug.) entire from "Chatham Is." via Dunedin to Wellington, bearing 1862 imperf. 1d. orange-vermilion pair with margins in places (right-hand stamp defective), possibly applied at Dunedin, twice cancelled "18" and showing Dunedin (27.8) and Wellington (11.9) c.d.s. alongside; the pair is not tied and the cover is offered "as is". Mail from the Chatham Islands is uncommon. Photo

Note: A Post Office opened on the Chatham Islands in July 1856. A date stamp was proofed on 20 April 1863

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Estimate
£800 to £1,000