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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: 650

(x) New Zealand
Early Letters and Handstamps
Crowned Circle Handstamps
1861 (15 Nov.) entire letter from Dunedin to Launceston, Tasmania, carried on the private schooner Tyne wrecked off Cape Pillar, Tasmania, rated "6" and showing a superb strike of the Otago handstamp in black just touched by light filing crease at top, despatch datestamp at lower left corner, framed "ship letter inwards free" handstamp in red crossing left of Crowned Circle handstamp. A fine and exceptional example of this very rare handstamp, of which there are only three examples recorded, and considered the only example of mail recorded from this wreck. S.G. CC3a, £3,250. Photo

Note: The Tyne" left Port Chalmers on 15 November. When the ship was wrecked off Cape Pillar with the loss of four lives, the remaining passengers and crew scaled a 200ft. cliff and eventually reached Port Arthur the following afternoon

provenance:
John Woolfe, December 2006

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Sold for
£4,500