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Auction: 1020 - Summer Collectors Series - Stamps
Lot: 1901

Antarctica 1934 H.M.S. "Milford" Expedition to Bouvet Island 10ø green and 20ø red horizontal pair, uncancelled and affixed to envelope to "The Honourable O. Pirow, K.C., M.P., Parliament Buildings, Cape Town" showing a superb strike of the "cape town/paquebot" c.d.s. for 6 March applied subsequent to H.M.S. Milford arriving back from her voyage. Photo Estimate £ 300-400 Note: On the reverse of the envelope is a notation in pencil "From: Evans of the Broke - then Commander in Chief Africa Station (on H.M.S. Milford" Admiral Edward Ratcliffe Russell Evans (later Lord Mountevans) was an Antarctic explorer. He served as second-in-command on Robert Falcon Scott´s ill fated 1910-13 expedition to the South Pole. After being taken ill, in 1912, he returned as captain of the expedition ship "Terra Nova" to take off the expedition´s survivors

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