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Auction: 11033 - Autumn Collector's Series Sale
Lot: 1403

Tasmania Travelling Post Offices The Kaana Lenna Line 1912 Pictorial 1d. red cancelled with a fine strike of the "kanna-leena/tasmania" c.d.s. dated 2 August, and Pictorial 1/2d. with a large part strike of the same datestamp though with the date rather unclear. The only two examples known to the owner. Photo Estimate £ 100-120 Note: A T.P.O. was established at the construction camp on the pipeline from the Great Lake to the new power station at Waddamanna. It was named Kanna Leena and it moved as the construction progressed. It operated for only eight months from April to November 1912 provenance: Heaps

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