REST OF THE WORLD, NEW ZEALAND, POSTAL HISTORY

Lot 518		Estimate: $100 1892-1905 cover group comprising 1892 Reefton to Christchurch bearing 2d, 1895 Christchurch to USA bearing 2d + ½d, 1898 Auckland to USA bearing 2½d, 1904 PPC Wellington to Scotland bearing 1d and 1905 Invercargill to Newfoundland bearing 1d, mixed condition (5 items)
Lot 519		Estimate: $300 1899 Forgery of Pigeongram 1/- 'GREAT BARRIER ISLAND/SPECIAL POST' blue on white, affixed to small mourning cover and cancelled with violet handstamp. Very rare
Lot 520		Estimate: $100 Realised Price : $75 1906 (10 Nov) Exhibition PPC to England bearing 1d Christchurch tied by Christchurch cds
Lot 521		Estimate: $75 1908 (4 Jan) PPC to Fiji bearing ½d Mt Cook tied by squared-circle Timaru datestamp, magenta circled 'TO PAY' and initialled, Suva oval cds
Lot 522		Estimate: $80 1925 (27 Nov) cover used locally to Huntly bearing 1d Dunedin Exhibition tied by 'VISIT THE BIG EXHIBITION' slogan machine cancel
Lot 523		Estimate: $80 1926 (23 Mar) cover to Sierra Leone bearing 1d Dunedin Exhibition, Liverpool transit cds and Freetown arrival backstamp, minor toning. Unusual example of printed matter rate to an exotic destination
Lot 524		Estimate: $300 1931 (10 Dec) commercial use of 2d Smiling Boy on roughly opened cover to England tied by Auckland Health slogan cancel, endorsed at left 'Per R.M.S. 'Niagara'/Via Vancouver. Scarce
Lot 525		Estimate: $200 1938 (27 Sep) Insurance Dept. envelope used at Wanganui bearing 1d Life Insurance tied by slogan '1939 VISIT 1940/CENTENNIAL EXHIBITION' cancel. Attractive
Lot 526		Estimate: $2,500T Fanning Island: 1911 (26 June) cover to Auckland bearing superb strike in blue of the very rare 'PAID 1D/FANNING ISLAND', overstruck with double-circled 'FANNING ISLAND/JE 26/11' datestamp. Superb and rare item
Lot 527		Estimate: $400 Kermadec Islands: 1936 roughly opened cover to Sydney via New Zealand with Auckland 24 Oct 36 cds, endorsed at top 'SUNDAY ISLAND MAIL/No Stamps Available/Per Aux Ketch 'YVONNE'. Rare