New Zealand 1938 cover - returned to sender

Here is a busy old cover from New Zealand.  I got this at the show two weeks ago for 40 cents.  I like going through covers looking for the ones that have their own travel tales to tell.  Of course, I was already selling my own bins full of covers for 50c each, just so I wouldn't have to scan and list them all.  But this one was new to me, and I had been through all of my own covers before.  So here it is:

Postmarked 1938, the kiwi cachet and crossed-out address caught my eye right away.  But other details came up: it has a "BNZ" prefin on one stamp, and a postage due "T" handstamp.  It was redirected when the recipient was not found, and got a backside roller mark from DINARD France as it was being sent back to sender. 

I listed this one on HipStamp today and it sold for $4.95 in about two hours.  So there must be something about it that I'm not seeing.  Or my eyeball pricing is spot on.

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