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Auction: 11025 - Dr. Robert Towers Collection of British Empire
Lot: 186

Cape of Good Hope 1816 entire to "Colonel Keating, Mauritius or Bourbon" showing double-lined oval "ship letter/cape of good hope"; 1830 (5 Nov.) entire from Somerset, headed "On Service", rated "2/2" and showing Crowned "post office/cape/town/general" d.s.; and 1840 (June) missionary entire (heavy horizontal filing crease) to London, rated "2/8" and "6", marked "post paid 5/-" in red, showing unclear Crown h.s., Crowned "general post office/cape of good hope" oval d.s. and framed "india letter/deal" Estimate £ 100-120

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