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Auction: 1028 - The "Wilkin" Collection of British West Africa Postal History and British Africa Stamps from the Vestey Collection
Lot: 1054

Cape of Good Hope 1853 Issue on Deeply Blued Paper Cover 1853 (7 Sept.) entire letter from "Sidbury", near Grahamstown, "pr Mail Steamer" to London, rated "1/-" and bearing 4d. deep blue pair with clear to large margins and with each stamp clearly cancelled and tied by a fine strike of the triangular obliterator, the reverse with "general post office/Crown/capetown" oval-framed h.s. and arrival c.d.s. (26.10); most attractive. The earliest recorded entire addressed overseas bearing triangular adhesives. B.P.A. Certificate (1985). Photo Estimate £ 4,000-5,000 provenance: Maria de la Queillerie, May 1970 H.E. Levitt Sir Maxwell Joseph, October 1982 Spink, March 2005

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