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Auction: 1027 - Autumn Collector's Series
Lot: 986

x Mauritius 1859 (10 Sept.) envelope "per Salsette" to Aden, bearing 1858-62 (9d.) dull magenta with clear to huge margins in combination with 1859-61 6d. blue L-shaped strip of four with good to huge margins, all cancelled with void oval of bars, rated "1/4" in red crayon and showing, on reverse, despatch Crowned d.s. and Aden Steamer Point arrival c.d.s. (17.9); the envelope a little reinforced at right otherwise sound. A very rare and almost certainly unique franking. B.P.A. Certificate (1994). Photo Estimate £ 7,000-8,000 provenance: Dale Lichtenstein, 1968 Hiroyuki Kanai, 1993

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