Rare New Zealand Stamps
SPECIMENS REALISE UP TO £3OO. United Press Association. —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, Oct. 4.
Two New Zealand penny carmine stamps on a letter sent by a soldier in New Zealand in 1855 to his mother *n Northumberland, realised £lls at Harmer’s auction. The ordinary postage was a shilling, but soldiers were privileged to pay twopence. A New Zealand threepenny lilac 1862, whereof the only other known copy .is in France, brought £240. A shilling yellow of 1855 brought £3OO.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 7280, 6 October 1933, Page 7
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83Rare New Zealand Stamps Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 7280, 6 October 1933, Page 7
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