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Auction: 1028 - The "Wilkin" Collection of British West Africa Postal History and British Africa Stamps from the Vestey Collection
Lot: 1030

Cape of Good Hope 1843 (20 Mar.) entire letter, folded five times to produce a triangular missive, from Mrs. Caroline Thomson, probably a resident of Simonstown, to Mrs. Maclean at the Royal Observatory, rated "3" in red ink and showing a fair strike of the Crowned "general post office/cape of good hope" oval d.s. A wonderful frontis piece to any Cape of Good Hope collection. Photo Estimate £ 1,200-1,500 Note: The cover is accompanied by an article on the above item by the late Commander F.W. Collins, R.N., entitled "Cape Triangulars - Is this their Origin" provenance: Sir Henry Tucker, November 1979 "Maximus", September 1989

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£500