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Auction: 16042 - New Zealand, The Professor Derek Diamond Collection featuring 2d. Chalons and the 1898-1908 Pictorial Issue
Lot: 59

New Zealand
1855-73 Chalon Two Pence
Covers
Inland Letter Rates
1855 (28 Nov.) envelope from Auckland and addressed locally to Archdeacon Brown, bearing 1855 London printing 2d. dull blue with clear to very large margins all round except at lower right where just touched at one point, cancelled "1" and with fine datestamp alongside. Fine and scarce, being the 8th. oldest surviving cover addressed to an internal destination. Photo

Note: Although stamps came into use in Auckland in July 1855 covers from 1855 are very difficult to find

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Sold for
£1,700