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Auction: 1020 - Summer Collectors Series - Stamps
Lot: 1981

Falkland Islands Covers and Cancellations South Shetlands 1922 (22 Nov.) printed OHMS envelope (239x204mm., believed to have contained photographs) registered to Dr. Hallowes at Port Stanley, bearing 1912-24 1/- deep ochre and 3/- slate-green from the upper left and lower left corners of the sheet respectively, each cancelled with superb "deception island/south shetlands" double-oval d.s. in violet with a further superb strike below, arrival c.d.s. (20.4.23!) on reverse. A very fine and remarkable franking. S.G. Z115 116. Photo Estimate £ 600-800 provenance: Sir Phillip Brocklehurst papers

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