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Auction: 1015 - The "Stolz" Collection of the Postal History of British SE Asia
Lot: 1029

Penang Early Letters and Handstamps 1849 (10 Apr.) entire letter to Boston USA c/o Baring Brothers, London, variously rated and showing the large framed "penang/Bearing" d.s. (Type P.S.9) partly overstruck by red London transit d.s. (31.5). Very rare, only a few examples recorded. Photo Estimate S$ 2,500-3,000 provenance: Howard Selzer, November 1986 Nestor Nunez, December 1988 Spink sale, June 2000

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SG$5,000