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Auction: 1027 - Autumn Collector's Series
Lot: 987

x Mauritius 1860 (7 May) entire, rated "4" in red crayon, "Par Overland Mail Via Aden" to Calcutta, bearing 1859-61 6d. blue with good to enormous margins in combination with 1860-63 2d. blue, each cancelled with void oval of bars, the reverse with despatch c.d.s. and framed "calcutta/steam letter/Steam Bg/Indian Do" framed d.s. (11.6). A rare mixed issue franking. Holcombe (1990) and B.P.A. (1994) Certificates. Photo Estimate £ 4,000-5,000 provenance: Hiroyuki Kanai, 1993

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