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311
$800.00
Lot Type: C
Canterbury area pmks on commercial covers, almost all 1880s-90s period (some later, to 1920s). Colln of 136 from 88 diff POs [103 mounted in very old looseleaf foolscap binder or loose (33)]. Mostly VG to fine strikes. Covers good to fine. POs incl Annat, Chorlton, Ellesmere, Greenpark, Kimberley, Lismore, Long Bay Road, Longbeach, Lowcliffe, Medbury Motonau, Selwyn, Waikuku, West Eyreton. Noted 1892 with fine "Consignee's Letter" h/s & RPO-NU railway T.P.O. pmk (to Ballantyne's), also 1898 very fine "Posted at Windermere Flag Station" h/s (rare). Ex Keith Moir.
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312
$500.00
Lot Type: C
Mount Ida (1863-73 name to Naseby) DE 15 72 cds on cover sent to England via San Francisco (3d lilac pair SG 117) with indistinct cancels. B/s Dunedin DE 17 & Liverpool MR 18 73 cds. This is the last recorded use of the Mt Ida pmk.
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313
$750.00
Lot Type: U
South Isl range of 14 Perkins Bacon barred obliterators (issued 1855), mostly ((11) on FFQs, incl "16" of Lyttelton or Kaiapoi (5), "17" of Christchurch or Rangiora (6), "18" of Dunedin or Port Chalmers (3). Noted 3 imperf no wmk 6d: SG 13, 14, 15 FU (alone cat £1650).
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314
$700.00
Lot Type: C
1835 & 1853 two covers relating to "Hutt" naming. 1) 1835 'free front' London to Sussex rated "free" (h/s) signed by M.P. William Hutt (whom the Hutt River was named after). 2) 1853 cover addressed to "River Hutt", prepaid "2"d (+ Wellington crowned circle in red). Hutt River was an early name for the settlement, hence Lower Hutt & Upper Hutt on lower & upper river.
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315
$600.00
1841-63 early newspapers (x 3) & Govt Gazette (x 1). 1) "The N.Z. Gazette and Wellington Spectator" Port Nicholson, May 1, 1841. 2) "The Victoria Times" Wellington, Sept 15, 1841 (first issue, Wellington's second newspaper, uniquely all hand-written!) Cost 1/-, Provenance back to 1876 Postmaster General. 3) "NZ Herald and Auckland Gazette", Feb 26, 1842 (9d). 4) "Otago Provincial Government Gazette: June 10, 1863. Most showing signs of ageing.
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316
$1,100.00
Lot Type: C
1841-8 Early Auckland traders mail (3). 1) 1841 to GB sent Oct 13 arrived Louth 6.5.42 (black cds), rated "8"d, prepaid "3"d. Ship-letter & red receiving stamps on reverse. Writer complains about money scarcity / 20-30% interest, Governor Hobson & business slowdown, slow supplies ex GB, slow immigration etc. 2) 1848 entire Nelson Jan 29 arrival Auckland Commercial Bay Feb 19 via Wellington, "4" to be paid, to tin plate worker. Nice clear cdss. 3) 1848 entire ex Sydney to Rev Purchase, Auckland via "Emma", has red crowned Sydney ship letter marking, a "3"d in red & a "4"d in black. Arrived Oct 11. Request for building supplies.
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317
$3,800.00
Lot Type: C
1843 Kororareka mail: Entire ex Revd W.C. Dudley (Paihia) via Kororareka PO ("Paid at Kororarika" h/s in red) to the C.M.S. London, assessed as "6"d in black replaced by "8"d (2d for Captain's gratuity) arrived London (red cds) 13.9.43 "Ship letter" in black. Contains important historical information re Dudley's trip on foot to Turanga (later named Gisborne) & Ahuriri with Archd. W. Williams, meeting with Bishop Selwyn at Patanga and near death illness.
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318
$500.00
Lot Type: C
1845 Entire to London critical of Governor Fitzroy. Ex settler Robert Lander, Wellington (crown-in-oval 9.1.1845), rated "4"d in red & "8"d (ship letter, to be paid). Reverse also has receiving & ship letter h/ss. Contents: Fitzroy unliked, arbitrary laws, duties and taxes, no stability, "natives" not punished, Home Government could not sanction his actions.
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319
$400.00
Lot Type: C
1845? Entire to Col E.G. Wakefield of the NZ Company at Wellington, NZ from his nephew EJ Wakefield (then in Chile). Originally 2 sheets of cross written paper (of which this is the 2nd), apparently handed to a friend leaving Chile for NZ & posted (probably), on arrival, at Nelson 24 Jan 1845 (date verified from another entire ex the same correspondence). Black m/s "8" (double rate, 8d to pay), canc virtually illegible "NELSON [?] / NEW ZEALAND" framed crowned oval d/s & partial similar d/s of Wellington FE? 3? 1845. Good condition, though not complete. Historic item.
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320
$600.00
Lot Type: C
1845 Entire ex absentee landowner (Todd, Glasgow) to Wellington solicitor (Strang). Sent 5.9.1845 (red cds) 1/- paid as a Toulmin packet (Midlothian) to Sydney. Arrived Auckland on the Fanny Adams 20.2.1846 (cds) then Wellington 17 Mar (crown in oval d/s), 8d to pay (4d sea, 4d inland). Todd complains rent not paid on Lambton Quay town acre & mentions his "unfarmable" Hawtrey (Days) Bay lot is left with George Day rent free. Incls P.C. Days Bay c1900.
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321
$600.00
Lot Type: C
1845 Mail from first Auckland PO, to London bearing a type 1 "Imperial" cds (New-Zealand DE 10 1845) on reverse plus GB receiving stamp 20 MY 1846 in red. On front "4"d in red "Paid at Auckland" h/s in red for transit to GB & "1/-" in black assessed on arrival. Fine condition.
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322
$650.00
Lot Type: C
1847 Settler's entire to London, "via Hobart Town". Rated "8"d & "4"d in red with a crisp "Paid at Wellington" crown-on-circle (red). Superb Wellington crown-in-oval 1847 cancel in black + light black "Ship letter" h/s. Settler Henry Chapman describes Lt Governor Eyre (New Munster) as "a perfect nincompoop" now referred to verbatim in the Encyclopedia of NZ (1966) pp 604-5. Treasurer Petre described as a "mere booby" plus other comments.
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323
$500.00
Lot Type: C
1848 Inward entire from ex colonist E.C. Strode in GB ex "Holborn Bars" in red to Dr Thomas MacKenzie, printer/editor (Wellington Independent newspaper). Cover "per Indian" assessed "1/-" & "paid" cds both in red. Sent 10.10.47 & arrived Wellington 2.4.1848 (cds). Writer suggests postal interference with news ex NZ negative to the reputation of the NZ Company and condemns a Bill indemnifying the company for past acts etc. Also an original copy of the Independent, Jan 8 1848 in clean condition.
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324
$1,050.00
Lot Type: C
1850 Immigrant's mail: 1) 1858 Steerage passenger's contract ticket for £56 detailing family, ages, food allowances etc plus a handwritten personal reference ("peaceable, inoffensive, full communication with church" etc). 2) 1853 cross-written entire ex Auckland to GB, prepaid "2"d (red) with "8"d (black) and "Paid at Auckland" h/s in red. New arrival, Mary Dyer describes a horrendous trip, New Plymouth a "horrid hole", gales in Cook Strait etc. 3) Cover front to migrant John Rule per "Agra" ex Aberdeen. "8"d paid "2"d to pay, 4 cdss plus "Aberdeen Paid JY 5, 1852" red h/s.
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325
$375.00
Lot Type: C
1854 Mail re Provincial schools: unstamped entire ex Wellington to "Hobart Town" (unframed Wellington cds) prepaid "2"d (Colonial rate) arrived 30 MY (red, ship letter inwards paid in red). Reverse L(aunceston) 29 MY 1854 cds. Writer, Commissioner Thomas Mason comments on prevention of well-funded religious groups having excessive control of new provincial schools. As commissioner, he was working to prevent this.
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326
$700.00
Lot Type: C
1856 Crimean War x 2 mourning covers. Since packet boats were used to carry troops to Crimea, private boats carried mail as "shipletters" at 8d/oz c.f 6d for packets. 1) By private Merchant ship, ex Auckland 20.11.1856 (cds) on William Denny, then by Maid of Judah departed 27 Nov, arrived Plymouth (cds) 28.2.1857 ("ship-letter" & London 2 Mar 1857 in red), "2"d prepaid, "8"d h/s) in black. 2) by contract clipper ex Auckland 6.10.1856 arrived London 10.2.1857 on the Heather Bell, "2"d in red "8"d in black. Has disinfectant cross-slit on flap.
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327
$325.00
Lot Type: C
1857 entire (no postal markings) to "Mrs Alicia Jones, up the Whanganui, Kind care of Mrs W. Kells", from early Methodist missionary, William Woon (1803-1858, known to Maori as "Te Wunu"). Message headed "Whanganui, Oct 21 1857". Ornate "WW" on wax letter seal. With typed transcript & biographical data. After a career in Tonga (from 1831), northern NZ & Taranaki, Woon returned to Whanganui in 1854 & was for a time postmaster there. Early letter carried privately (?) up the Whanganui River (possibly no regular postal service to there at this time?) Important Whanganui social history. Fine cond.
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328
$1,000.00
Lot Type: CU
1859-70 Post free official mail: 1) Military mail: the original 1859 NZ Gazette (+ its handwritten OHMS wrapper) which announced the rules for post-free military mail, plus a nice example of a 1d FFQ ex a soldier's private mail (1d/½oz concession still applied). FFQ SG 35, 4 margins cancelled "Headquarters" (small corner repair). 2) Non-military mail: post-free for Govt/Officials from 1862; example to Hon D MacLean, Wellington, bears "On Service" handwritten & a clear "Auckland·N·Zealand Free SP 28 1870" framed cds. Also an 1853 example of official mail (to Comm of Crown Lands) before 1862, "2" (2d) in black & an unframed Wellington cds.
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329
$800.00
Lot Type: U
1860s Land Wars cancellations on FFQs, incl on 3 x 1d carmine-vermilion, imperf SG 35 (together cat £1200), each about 2 margins. Two canc "Queens Redoubt" barred obliterator (1 near complete but part blurred; 1 near illegible but stamp good). One canc "Headquarters" obliterator (partial) & another partial on FFQ p12½ 2d pale blue (worn plate). Also "4 / ONEHUNGA / A" & "5 / OTAHUHU / A" obliterators (clear 75% strikes), nice strike of Drury cds APL 1 64 & partial Port Waikato cds. Stamps incl sound imperf 1d SG 34 (cat £350) & 6d SG 43 (£180). Well written up on 3 old album pages.
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330
$1,000.00
Lot Type: C
1860-71 FFQ (4) & "pre-stamp" (3) covers. FFQ: 1867 Dunedin to Hawkesbury bearing 2 x 1d (SG 110) cdss Waikouaiti (type 19, PSNZ, vol I, p112) & Dunedin; 1868 Auckland to Auckland bearing pair of SG 110; 1863 Auckland to Taranaki to Rev John Whiteley (who was murdered there by the Hauhaus 6 years later), bearing 2d blue imperf (4 mgns, SG 36) plus Whiteley's notes on front, roughly opened (side); 1871 Wellington to England bearing 6d brown (SG 122) annotated "via San Francisco". Stampless (1860): Port Victoria (cds) to London rated "6" in red; entire Auckland to Provincial Secretary, New Plymouth (details war materials) "2" in black; Wellington to Wanganui entire rated "2" in red, nice Petre cds & "Paid at Wellington" crowned circle h/s (SG £400). Condition generally good.
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