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Auction: 17021 - Great Britain with Post Offices in Central and South America, Europe, Middle East, Asia and Australasia - The David Pitts Collection
Lot: 593

(x) Cook Islands
Penrhyn Island
1902 (7 May) envelope carried on the first mail out of the island to Suva, Fiji, bearing 1902 ½d., 1d. and 2½d. in combination with Cook Islands ½d. blue and 5d. olive-black, all cancelled by "penrhyn/new zealand" double-ring datestamp, the reverse with Papeete (2.6), Auckland (8.2) and Suva (20.7) datestamps; the ½d. defective and a couple of fox marks on other values though a rare and important franking mentioned in "The Postage Stamps of New Zealand", Vol V, page 415. Photo

provenance:
"Nashville", May 2005

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Sold for
£500