Auction Of Stamps
Four stamps of two values, associated with the Auckland Islands, will be auctioned this month by Stanley Gibbons, Ltd, in London. Five years ago the firm would have sold the two blocks for £l, but whoever buys them on December 20 will have to pay about 70 times that amount.
The stamps were issued in 1951 by an expedition attempting to salvage the wreck of the General Grant which went down in 1866 near the Auckland Islands, an uninhabited group about 300 miles south of the Dominion. The stamps were not authorised by the New Zealand postal authorities. Nevertheless, some are known to have been cancelled in New Zealand without any postage being charged. The two blocks of two being offered as part of an “all world” auction at Gibbon’s rooms in London are unused and their estimated value is £75.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31863, 16 December 1968, Page 16
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