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OLD NEW ZEALAND STAMPS
(Received October 5, 11 a.m.) LONDON, October-4: Two New Zealand 'penny carmine stamps on a letter sent by a soldier in New Zealand in 1855 to his mother in Northumberland realised £115 at Harmer's auction. Tho ordinary postago was a shilling, but soldiers were privileged to pay 2d. A New Zealand 3d lilac, 1862, of which the only other known copy is in Franco, brought £240. A shilling yellow, 1855, brought £30,0.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 83, 5 October 1933, Page 11
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78HIGH PRICES Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 83, 5 October 1933, Page 11
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