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Auction: 16042 - New Zealand, The Professor Derek Diamond Collection featuring 2d. Chalons and the 1898-1908 Pictorial Issue
Lot: 101

New Zealand
1855-73 Chalon Two Pence
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1857 (30 Oct.) envelope (no flap) registered from Nelson to Bury St. Edmunds, bearing 1855 blue paper 2d. blue strip of three with margins a good way round and with each lightly cancelled "14", manuscript "Reg No. 531" above large "d6" handstamp and London Registered oval datestamp (6.2) below. Attractive and the earliest recorded item of registered mail with stamps paying the postage. Photo

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Sold for
£1,900