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Auction: 22020 - The Robin Gwynn Collection of New Zealand
Lot: 246

(x) New Zealand
Great Barrier Island Pigeon Post
1898 The Original Great Barrier Pigeongram Service
1899 (Jul.) entire flimsy bearing 1/- blue-green overprinted "pigeongram" in black tied by 'great barrier/ the original/ pigeongram service' double-circle cancellation in violet. Fewer than ten "Flimsies" are recorded, this being a control example sent to check flight times, rare. R.P.S. Certificate (2021). CP VP3, $20,000

Subject to 5% tax on Hammer Price in addition to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium.

Sold for
£4,200

Starting price
£1500