Auction: 19012 - The 'Pegasus' Collection of Important Classic New Zealand
Lot: 505
Crowned Circle Handstamps
Petre
1855 (10 Nov.) envelope to Mrs. Brown "to the care of S Graham Esq." at "Tauranga via Auckland", rated "2" and showing a light strike at left, Auckland transit datestamp (7.12) at right, despatch datestamp on reverse. S.G. CC5, £1,400. Photo
Note: Mrs. Brown was the wife of pioneer missionary A.N. Brown who established the mission station at Tauranga. He and his wife arrived sailed in to the Bay of Islands in 1829 as only the third ordained missionary to arrive in the country. Brown died in 1884 at Tauranga
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