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Auction: 1027 - Autumn Collector's Series
Lot: 863

Cape of Good Hope Covers 1856 front and part back from Victoria to Graaf-Reinett bearing 1d. deep brick-red on deeply blued paper pair and a single with margins all round and neatly cancelled, another stamp removed, 1860 (Oct.) blue envelope (creases) from Cape Town "per H.M.S. Dane" to England bearing 6d. rose-lilac with clear to large margins and showing Paid Devonport Cape Packet c.d.s. (29.11), 1861 (Apr.) envelope from Cape Town to Murraysburg bearing 4d. blue with clear to very large margins and lightly cancelled, and 1863 (July) envelope (faults) from Cape Town to Scotland bearing 1863-64 1/- bright emerald-green with margins in places and lightly cancelled, Paid Devonport Cape Packet c.d.s. in red alongside Estimate £ 400-500

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