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Auction: 1014 - Collector's Series - Stamps
Lot: 451

Gibraltar Accountancy and Instructional Marks 1875 (4 Sept.) entire "pr Nantes" to Genoa, bearing 2d. blue Plate 14 cancelled "A26" and with Gibraltar c.d.s. at top centre, received too late for despatch by this vessel and showing a superb strike of the "too-late" h.s. together with "con Bastim Mercant" h.s. (only found on mail on merchantmen coming from South America), upon arrival franked with 40c. Postage Due cancelled with pen marks and Genoa c.d.s. (9.9); filing crease crosses the Postage Due. The only recorded example of the Too Late handstamp. Photo Estimate £ 500-600

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