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Auction: 1020 - Summer Collectors Series - Stamps
Lot: 1884

Antarctica 1921-22 Shackleton-Rowett Expedition by Sir Ernest Shackleton and succeeded by Frank Wild 1922 envelope to South Africa, bearing G.B. 1/2d. green pair (one defective) and 1d. red cancelled with three strikes of the "s-r. antarctic/expedition1921" 25 May c.d.s. and sharing a fine strike of the boxed "gough/island" handstamp; a few letters of the left-hand c.d.s. assisted, otherwise fine and attractive. Photo Estimate £ 250-300 provenance: Dr. J.H. Harvey Pirie, 1966

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£950