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Lot 2398    SESSION 9 (9.30AM WEDNESDAY 13TH SEPTEMBER)    Sporting & General Medals, Badges & Awards - Miscellane

Estimate $1,000
Bid at live.noble.com.au

COBB & CO.'S Telegraph Line of Royal Mail Coaches, c1865, ticket from Maungatawhiri Creek to Auckland, in the name of James Fenton, dated March (18?). Some foxing, otherwise very fine and excessively rare.

The following courtesy National Library of New Zealand - Papers Past - from "Lyttelton Times" 7 June 1864:

"Messrs. Quick and Co., the proprietors of a new line of coaches to be started in Auckland under the title of Cobb's Telegraph line of coaches, give notice that on and after Wednesday the 25th instant, a six-horse coach will leave the booking office in Queen street, at six o'clock a.m. daily, for Otahuhu, Drury, and Queen's Redoubt, and that one will leave the Queen's Redoubt, at 10 a.m. daily, for Auckland. This will be a great assistance to the many who now have occasion to go to the Queen's Redoubt on their way further up the Waikato, and we hope to see their line extended to Rangiriri before long. A considerable addition to the present conveyances for passengers to Drury has long been wanted, and Messrs. Quick and Co.'s vehicles doubtless will find their services highly appreciated by all."

With further research indicating that James Fenton was deceased by 9 August 1865.

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