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320
$350.00
Lot Type: C
Taranaki interest covers 1886-1916: Opunaki (rare spelling, Wooders rating 9) on printed 'Ancient Order of Foresters' Friendly Society cover to Carterton 1886, and revised spelling Opunake on p/c 1893; Oaonui on p/c 1911; Okaiawa & Waitara on covers respectively to Switzerland & USA 1910 & 1901; Koru on 1916 WWI censored card 'Greetings from Malta' with double-boxed ON ACTIVE SERVICE / N.Z. Hospital Ship / "Marama" to Wellington where GONE NO ADDRESS applied & manuscript 'Try Koru New Plymouth'. 6 items.
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321
$650.00
Lot Type: C
1846 Early ship letter mail. Union Bank of Australia printed cover ex Sydney 5th March 1846, "Per Bee via Wellington" (arr 23 Apr) to Nelson (arr 10 May). Front showing Wellington and Nelson oval cancels and m/s rates: 1/- paid (red) and 2/8d to be paid. Details on enclosed page.
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322
$600.00
Lot Type: C
1848-1869 x 4 covers: a) 28 April 1848 Wellington-London - smudged black PACKET LETTER/DEVONPORT h/s; b) 20 April 1857 Wellington-Wanganui (Petre arrival canc); c) 8 March 1869 Otahuhu (6d red-brown FFQ) to York - 4 June 1869 arrival b/s; d) untidy, redirected 4 September 1869 Auckland to York to Filey cover (6d red-brown FFQ & GB 1d red York duplex), 7 December 1869 arrival b/s.
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Lot
323
$225.00
Lot Type: C
1849-1853 Fine crown/PAID/AT/WELLINGTON NEW ZEALAND cancel in red on folded piece & TH/20 MR 20/1849 red British receiving cancel on rear. Also: small neat cover to to NELSON/OC 10? 1853/A/NEW-ZEALAND cancel on rear.
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324
$1,000.00
Lot Type: C
1852 Entire ex Fraserburgh to Hutt, Wellington by "Ship Letter" (m/s & cds "London OC 14 1852"). Front bears cds's. Fraser (burgh) OC 11, Edinburgh (Paid Oct 13), London (Paid 14 OC) Otago (FE 26) & Wellington (MR 2 1853). Rated "8" red & "2" black. Good condition.
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325
$1,200.00
Lot Type: C
1853 Inland mail cover Auckland to Otago ( 2 letters) ex Peter Williams correspondence, both bearing crowned circle "Auckland Paid" h/s plus New Plymouth, Wellington & Otago cdss on front. One cover has "2" h/s in red, the other (entire) has "Registered" & "4" handwritten in red. Both have light folds.
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326
$1,000.00
Lot Type: C
1855, 1856, 1859 entires/covers (ex same correspondence) GB to NZ each with good average receipt strike of unframed cds "PORT-VICTORIA / NEW ZEALAND" (JU 16 1855, AU 20 1856, AU 24 1859). This d/s known 1851-1860 (name to Lyttelton). Nice condition overall. The 1855 entire has red m/s "6" (6d paid) & ornate black "2" (2d to pay) NZ marking, also Wellington NZ unframed transit cds.
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Lot
327
$525.00
Lot Type: C
1856-1907 Unpaid or insufficient paid mail: 1) 1856 cover from Auckland to Dunedin with ornate "2" h/s in black & an Otago "SP 8 1856" arrival cds on front. Auckland cds on reverse. Scarce use of black "2" h/s in Dunedin. 2) 1907 pictorial p/c ex Milton to Wedderburn with no stamps & same ornate "2" with "To pay" alongside. "Milton 15 MR 07" cds on front. 3) 1867 cover, Lyttelton to Port Chalmers bearing 2d blue perfed FFQ (cancel No. smudged), a light "Insufficiently stamped, Fine-" framed h/s & "2" on front. Despatch & arrival cdss on reverse. Faults.
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328
$600.00
Lot Type: C
1857-8 Moeraki-Dunedin mail (x 2). Both are incomplete entires datelined from "Moeraki", one of the 4 "Local Post Offices". Both bear "2" in red m/s & Otago unframed d/s.
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Lot
329
$650.00
Lot Type: C
1861 Envelope (blue) ex Dunedin (cds reverse DE 11, 1861) "per Aldinga" (m/s) to Melbourne (arr DC 17, 1861 cds reverse), bearing 6d brown imperf FFQ (2 mgns) m/s cancelled "Owen O'Callaghan, Russell Street Barracks, Melbourne". Cover has vert fold & other minor faults.
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Lot
330
$300.00
Lot Type: C
1862-72 two incoming letters to Otago: 1) 1860 cover ex Bath (cds "MR 9 60", front) , GB 6d lilac with "53" duplex & "via Southampton" & "Wakowaite" endorsements. Mis-directed showing Christchurch (21.5) & Otago (9.6) cdss on front, nice cond; 2) 1872 cover from Bolton (duplex "18 DE 72" on front) to H. M. Custom House, Otago (neatly pre-printed address), bearing GB 3d rose (x 2) plate 9, & Dunedin cds (6.3) on reverse, tidy.
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331
$1,500.00
Lot Type: C
1862 Envelope addressed to Melbourne ex goldfield town Tuapeka (cds NO 24, 1862) on reverse & "Dunedin NO 26" cds on front, bearing 3 x 2d blue imperf FFQs (1, 2 & 3 margins, LH stamp missing corner) with barred "18" cancels. Richmond receiving canc (DC 4) on reverse.
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Lot
332
$400.00
Lot Type: C
1862 Envelope sent to East Taieri from Waihola via Dunedin. 2d blue FFQ imperf (SG 36) cancelled by barred "31" pmk (Waihola), Dunedin SE 11 & "East Taieri Otago NZ SE 12 62" pmks. B/s part "WAIHO(LA) O(TAGO) (62 SE) 10" cds. (Date inverted relative to name). Flap missing, many hinge marks. Note: Earliest recorded use of both Waihola & East Taieri pmks.
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333
$1,500.00
Lot Type: C
1862 Stamped outer wrapper ex Chatham Isl to Wellington bearing 2 x imperf 1d orange-vermilion FFQs (2/3 mgns), & "Chatham Is - 6/8/62" m/s endorsement at the base. Dunedin receiving cds (AU 27 62) is also present. Stamps are not tied & appear to have been (re?) attached. The RH stamp is damaged & "patched" with an underlying stamp at the base. Very early mail ex Chatham Isl. Rare.
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Lot
334
$1,250.00
Lot Type: C
1863 stampless cover St Helena to NZ, canc large part "ST HELENA" double-oval d/s MR 311863 (in black), red (indicating postage paid) LONDON/GF transit cds AP 29 63 & unclear CHRISTCHURCH NZ receipt cds JY 26 63, all on front. Light soiling, some edge wear, flap tears. The St Helena d/s is quite rare and mail between St Helena & NZ must have been virtually non-existent at the time. Notation on the back indicates postage NZ to St Helena cost 2/8d. Very rare origin for early mail to NZ. Possibly unique.
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Lot
335
$2,000.00
Lot Type: C
1865-1868 F E Wright "CHRISTCHURCH. NEW ZEALAND" postmarking machine (impression applied sideways). Fine study of 9 covers (mostly fine), well written up on 5 pgs, incl 8 franked by FFQs (4 to GB, 4 local, incl 1 at 3d interprovincial rate). The first machine postmark used in NZ (the next was not till 1899). The 9th cover incoming from GB. Scarce lot. With 1994 article by Startup.
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Lot
336
$1,800.00
Lot Type: C
1868-84 Inward envelopes from GB x 10 - interesting range of rates & routes. Various stamps incl 4 mixed frankings. 8 are addressed to Melville Gray, Ashwick Station, Timaru. Stamps on cover STC £4985.
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Lot
337
$350.00
Lot Type: C
Two PAID ALL covers to North America, 1/- 1873 Greymouth to Canada West via Nelson, Adare & Lucan (Ontario) with appropriate backstamps, NZ stamp(s) removed, the PAID ALL marking in red crossed through & US stamps applied over it, 1878 to Boston franked FSF 6d. (2 covers).
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Lot
338
$450.00
Lot Type: C
1874 Re-directed mail. Opened out mourning cover from Ayr, Scotland "via San Francisco" addressed to Waihola, Otago, rate "2" (large, black) & bearing 9 x GB 1d red, 7 on reverse with 1 damaged, cancelled "Ayr 12 74". Re-addressed to Milton (cds date illegible).
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Lot
339
$400.00
Lot Type: /
1878-93 study of Dunedin registered large oval marking in red (2), black, orange (2) & purple, showing four diff types, with regn receipts (3), incoming mail from GB (franked QV 1/- green with perfin) & Victoria, & outgoing Kamloops, Canada franked 6d SSF (possible 2½d stamp missing but no sign it was ever present). Fine & attractive. (6 items).
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