cover 1p red-brown, 6p yellow-green (1, 4; S.G.1, 5), vertical pair of the former, cut into on two sides, horizontal pair of the latter, good to large margins, tied by oval grids to cover from New Glasgow, N.S., via Halifax and London to New Zealand; cover, showing London OC 18 58, Otago FE 25 1859 and Bluff Harbor MR 5 1859, backstamped New Glasgow SE 30 1858, Halifax OC 1 1858; a great rarity | Christie's

Lot 202

202

cover 1p red-brown, 6p yellow-green (1, 4; S.G.1, 5), vertical pair of the former, cut into on two sides, horizontal pair of the latter, good to large margins, tied by oval grids to cover from New Glasgow, N.S., via Halifax and London to New Zealand; cover, showing London OC 18 58, Otago FE 25 1859 and Bluff Harbor MR 5 1859, backstamped New Glasgow SE 30 1858, Halifax OC 1 1858; a great rarity

Details

cover 1p red-brown, 6p yellow-green (1, 4; S.G.1, 5), vertical pair of the former, cut into on two sides, horizontal pair of the latter, good to large margins, tied by oval grids to cover from New Glasgow, N.S., via Halifax and London to New Zealand; cover, showing London OC 18 58, Otago FE 25 1859 and Bluff Harbor MR 5 1859, backstamped New Glasgow SE 30 1858, Halifax OC 1 1858; a great rarity

Provenance

Brouse
Dale-Lichtenstein, 1968

Literature

See Argenti page 100 for a discussion of the 1sh 2p rate to Australia and New Zealand and for reference to this cover