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Estimate $800
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SOLD $740
MAORI; printer's proof of Communion token of admission in paper, undated but circa 1847 by Colenso (Williams 163). Two printed paragraphs in Maori followed by a Scripture reference and at the base 'Tukua tenei tangata ki roto' (Allow this person within) 'Na te Koreneho' (By Colenso) (115 x 85mm). The two parts were divided and pasted on the front and back of a card (78 x 57mm) by Colenso as a ticket of admission for attending communions. Good extremely fine and excessively rare, an important printed ephemeral item relating to the cross over between the Maori and the Christian community.
Ex Dr.N.W.Hogg (of Dargeville) Collection (lot 163) and Jim Johnson in 1988.
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