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Auction: 16042 - New Zealand, The Professor Derek Diamond Collection featuring 2d. Chalons and the 1898-1908 Pictorial Issue
Lot: 116

New Zealand
1855-73 Chalon Two Pence
Covers
Mail to the United Kingdom
1872 (23 Feb.) envelope from Motueka "via Brindisi" to Darlington, bearing 1864-71 2d. blue Plate I worn plate (2) and 6d. red-brown with indistinct numeral cancellations and with despatch c.d.s. alongside, the reverse with Dunedin c.d.s. for 3 April suggesting the cover was misplaced at Nelson for some seven weeks, Darlington (10.6) and Croft (11.6) c.d.s. Photo

Note: Due to increased charges to transit Belgium, the via Brindisi rate was increased to 10d. on 6 September 1871, However, on 20 February 1872, a G.P.O. notice advised that in future mail via Brindisi would be carried through the newly opened Mont Cenis Tunnel and across France to Calais, see Ellott page 120 and illustrated there

provenance :
John Woolfe, October 2006
Mark Benvie, May 2011

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£450