New Zealand - Postal History continued...
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Symbol |
Catalog No. |
Description |
Opening |
| 321 |
C |
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 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. (Image)
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Currently...NZ$425.00
Closing..Sep-20, 04:30 PM |
| 322 |
C |
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 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. (Image)
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Currently...NZ$475.00
Closing..Sep-20, 04:30 PM |
| 323 |
C |
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 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.
(Image)
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Currently...NZ$350.00
Closing..Sep-20, 04:30 PM |
| 324 |
C |
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 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. (Image)
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Currently...NZ$750.00
Closing..Sep-20, 04:30 PM |
| 325 |
C |
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 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. (Image)
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Currently...NZ$275.00
Closing..Sep-20, 04:30 PM |
| 326 |
C |
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 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. (Image)
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Currently...NZ$500.00
Closing..Sep-20, 04:30 PM |
| 327 |
C |
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 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. (Image)
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Currently...NZ$250.00
Closing..Sep-20, 04:30 PM |
| 328 |
CU |
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 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. (Image)
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Currently...NZ$700.00
Closing..Sep-20, 04:30 PM |
| 329 |
U |
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 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. (Image)
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Currently...NZ$575.00
Closing..Sep-20, 04:30 PM |
| 330 |
C |
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 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. (Image)
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Currently...NZ$700.00
Closing..Sep-20, 04:30 PM |
| 331 |
U |
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 1860s-1920s manuscript postal cancels range of 40 items, written up on old album pages. Some are enigmatic (eg: anonymous "X"
on 3 FFQs), but others with name or initials can be identified with certainty. These incl Spring Grove 1880, Rangiriri 1881, Epsom, Taupiri & Hobsonville 1882, Kopua & The Port 1880s, Otawhao 1895?, Ahiaruhe, Anaroa & Waterfalls c1899. Noted 7
FFQs. Further investigation may reward. (Image)
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Currently...NZ$475.00
Closing..Sep-20, 04:30 PM |
| 332 |
C |
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 1862 Wreck mail, cover h/s "Saved from the wreck of the Colombo" in black, ex Dunedin (17.9.1862) arrived Bristol 31.12.1862
without its stamp. Side opened, cover bears 3 clear cds on reverse and London r/s on front. (Image)
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Currently...NZ$500.00
Closing..Sep-20, 04:30 PM |
| 333 |
C |
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 1862 tidy stampless cover ex Picton (unframed cds MR 8, 1862) arrived Sheffield (cds MY 19, 62), probably route
Galle-Suez-Gibraltar. Prepaid "6"d in red m/s. Also the 6d brown imperf (SG 13) stamp issued for the Suez route (mandatory use from 1862), 4 margins FU. SG 13. Cat £350 (+ cover). (Image)
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Currently...NZ$425.00
Closing..Sep-20, 04:30 PM |
| 334 |
CU |
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 1866 tidy cover "via Dunedin and Marseilles" ex Timaru (15.5.66 cds) via Dunedin (16.5.66 cds) arrived London (16.7.66 cds),
bearing 6d & 2 x 2d FFQs (p12½) for Marseilles surcharge, tied by (blank) barred cancels. Also a fine 4d rose FFQ (SG 119) issued specifically for the Marseilles surcharge. (Image)
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Currently...NZ$700.00
Closing..Sep-20, 04:30 PM |
| 335 |
C |
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 1866 Dunedin to England envelope with 4d yellow & 6d brown (SG 120, 122) tied by Dunedin JU(LY) 20 66 duplex. Inscribed "Via
Marseilles" JULY 20th(?). Flap missing. (Image)
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Currently...NZ$850.00
Closing..Sep-20, 04:30 PM |
| 336 |
C |
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 1869 Lutheran missionary mail from Johann Friedrich Heinrich Wohlers, sole missionary on Ruapuke Isl to politician Hon Walter
Mantell in Wellington. Mailed on 17.7.1869 ex Ruapuke (no PO) via Campbelltown (cds) per favour, arrived Wellington (7.8.1869). Appended 6d red-brown p12½ FFQ tied by a barred "5" cancel. Wohlers & his wife devoted their lives to improving the lot
of the large Ruapuke Maori population. This letter concerns the local 'Native school', communication problems & use of OPSO. Fine historical document. (Image)
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Currently...NZ$950.00
Closing..Sep-20, 04:30 PM |
| 337 |
CU |
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 1870 & 1880 Telegraphic communication, incl an 1873 handwritten NZ telegram ex Major Turner, signed "By Order" E.C. Meredith,
clerk; a NZ Telegraphic Message (in reg) cover to London bearing a 6d blue FSF (Auckland duplex 17 AU 80) & a "paid" in red cds. Such official P&T envelopes contained follow-up hard copies; a £3 QVLT (7 SP 88 cds) postally cancelled (telegraphic
payment) etc. (Image)
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Currently...NZ$350.00
Closing..Sep-20, 04:30 PM |
| 338 |
C |
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 1878-82 Otago area covers x 13 ex J Solomon correspondence (Cromwell storekeeper), franked 2d FSF or 1d pair. A-class cds pmks
incl Waimate (with barred obliterator "19"), Palmerston ("04"), Queenstown ("25"), Lawrence ("017"), Roxburgh, Clyde ("023"), Manuherikia (rare, quite good strike, 1878), Cromwell ("032"), Ophir ("044"), & 3 ex Dunedin. Good to fine. Clean. (Image)
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Currently...NZ$350.00
Closing..Sep-20, 04:30 PM |
