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Auction: 1020 - Summer Collectors Series - Stamps
Lot: 1852

Antarctica 1907-09 Swedish Magellanian Expedition by Dr. Carl Skottsberg 1908 (Apr.) envelope (some edge faults) from Chile to Uppsala, Sweden, bearing 3c. olive-brown and 12c. on 5c. red lightly cancelled and showing a superb strike of the "swedish/magellanian/expedition/1907-09" cachet in violet at upper left, light arrival c.d.s. on reverse. Photo Estimate £ 300-400 Note: This expedition, led by Carl Skottsberg, was for the purpose of botanical, zoological and geological research. They visited the Falkland Islands, Patagonia, Juan Fernandez, Tierra del Fuego and South Georgia provenance: Dr. J.H. Harvey Pirie, 1966

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