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Auction: 1020 - Summer Collectors Series - Stamps
Lot: 1979

Falkland Islands Covers and Cancellations South Orkneys 1944 set on envelope to London with letter from the Postmaster at Stanley apologising that the set is uncancelled, 1945 (2 Feb.) W.E. Lea envelope to England, bearing 1938-50 2/6d. to £1 each neatly cancelled with c.d.s. in violet, arrival c.d.s. (21.2) on reverse (S.G. Z95-98, £400), 1948 "falkland island and dependencies" aerogramme front to J.M. Wordie bearing Map 9d. with c.d.s. in violet, and three later; also 1868 J.H. Colton & Co. map and 1935 large photograph of the Meteorological Station on Laurie Island Estimate £ 200-250 provenance: Christie´s Robson Lowe, 1987

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£290