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Auction: 1027 - Autumn Collector's Series
Lot: 534

Barbados 1870 (10 Aug.) Officer´s envelope ex the "Poole" correspondence to England, bearing 1861-70 6d. orange horizontal pair each cancelled with bootheel "1", the reverse with despatch and arrival (26.8), some stains on face panel though one of the few covers from the correspondence sent after the concessionary rate was withdrawn on 1 January 1870, and the last of the correspondence. S.G. 33. Photo Estimate £ 300-400 Note: Poole died on 26 August aboard the "Mersey" en route from Barbados to St. Thomas

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