Selection on leaves predominantly mint from 1903-21 Overprints on New Zealand range including multiples, 1931 NZ Postal Fiscals Cowan Paper set *, 1932 Pictorials set * including ½d mixed perfs SG 55a (Cat £250) and used (ex 1/-; extra 4d), 1941-67 NZ Postal Fiscals Wiggins Teape Paper Single Wmk set * plus extra 2/6d & £1 * and 5/- used, Multiple Wmk set * x2 plus Wmk Inverted set * and 1967 5/- yellow-green Line Perf block of 6 and Comb Perf block of 6 & corner block of 12 **, 1944 Pictorials set, etc, condition generally fine to very fine, Cat £3000+.  (few 100) (Image1)

Estimate AU$1,000

1918-29 'NIUE' Overprint on New Zealand QV Postal Fiscals De La Rue Paper Perf 14 5/- green and Perf 14½x14 2/- to £1 set SG 32-37 plus Cowan Paper 5/-, 10/- & £1 SG 37a-37c, most are lightly mounted, the DLR 5/- with a small hinge remainder and the 10/- apparently unmounted, Cat £735 for mounted.  (8) (Image1)

Estimate AU$400

1941-43 'NIUE' Overprint on New Zealand Arms Postal Fiscals Wiggins Teape Paper Single Watermark 5/- green SG 80, well-centred, light neat small-part 'NIUE ISL[AND]' parcel roller cancel (that we have not seen before), Cat £400+ for CTO. Very scarce commercially used. (Image1)

Estimate AU$200

POSTAL HISTORY: 1865 entire letter headed "Alofi/Febr 17 65" and signed "WG Lawes" carried per favor by a ship's captain to "Revd H Nisbet/Malua" in Samoa, multiple folds & several repaired minor peripheral tears, very fragile but entirely legible. Ex Tony Eastgate. A great Pacific Islands rarity. William George Lawes was one of the most prominent missionaries in the South West Pacific. He was posted to Savage Island (Niue), arriving in 1865. In 1874, he & his wife became the first permanent white settlers in Papua, where he started 11 mission stations & produced the first book in a Papuan language. Rev Henry Nisbet arrived in Samoa in 1841 and, apart from two years in the New Hebrides, remained there until his death in 1879. (Image1)

Estimate AU$4,000