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Auction: 1020 - Summer Collectors Series - Stamps
Lot: 1797

Antarctica 1898-99 German Deep Sea Expedition by the S.S. "Valdivia" 1899 (Apr.) coloured postcard, inscribed "deutsche tiefsee-expedition", from Aden (stamp removed) to Austria showing European explorers coming ashore and native villagers coming forward to ivory tusks, the card with expedition handstamp at foot and with arrival c.d.s. on address side; rare. Photo Estimate £ 400-500 provenance: "Discovery", 1999

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