SALE OF RARE STAMPS
EARLY NEW ZEALAND ISSUES
(From "The Post's" Reprosentailve.) LONDON, January 5.
About two dozen rare, New Zealand stamps will be offered for auction on February 21 and 22 by H. R. Harmer, the London stamp auctioneer. All the stamps were issued between 1855 and 1860, and they are expected to realise several hundred pounds. They have an interesting history. In the early days of' New Zealand settlement a young man named James Ellman went out to the colony as a sheep farmer. He was a grandson of John Ellman, the principal original breeder of Southdown sheep./ James Ellman imported sheep from Sussex and had considerable success in breeding smallbodied animals suited to New Zealandconditions. He wrote many letters home telling of his progress, and the stamps to be auctioned are from these letters. "The stamps represent one of the most interesting finds of New Zealand material in recent years," an English authority said. "They all bear the portrait of Queen Victoria in her Coro-, nation robes after the original by A.. E Chalons and are considered to be the finest of the early British colonial stamp designs."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 22, 27 January 1938, Page 8
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