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Auction: 1027 - Autumn Collector's Series
Lot: 988

x Mauritius 1861 (6 Mar.) envelope, rated "1/4" in red crayon, "per Steamer Norma" to Bombay bearing, on reverse, 1859-61 6d. blue block of four with clear to very large margins mainly all round and in combination with 1860-63 4d. rose pair, all most unusually cancelled with "general post office/Crown/mauritius" circular handstamps, arrival c.d.s. (22.3) in red alongside; the envelope with some creasing though a rare and spectacular combination franking. B.P.A. Certificate (1994). Photo Estimate £ 7,000-8,000 provenance: Dale Lichtenstein, 1968 Hiroyuki Kanai, 1993

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