Lot 1471
1855/57, printing on blued paper without watermark, 2 d. blue, horizontal strip of 4, one stamp tiny touched at bottom, otherwise clear to good margins all around, tied by light strikes of numeral "1" to entire letter to England with adjacent clear date stamp "AUCKLAND JY 30 1857"; a vertical crease ironed out of the strip (almost invisible); an attractive and rare franking, certificate RPS (2000)
Provenance: 'Chalon' (1968), Henry Dumas (2000), Joseph Hackmey (2009)
