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Auction: 12043 - Queensland - The Alan Griffiths Collection
Lot: 1437

QueenslandCovers and CancellationsThursday Island1897 OHMS Post and Telegraph Department envelope, (complete with Avis De Réception form) registered to Ohio, U.S.A., showing manuscript "ar", "R" in oval, "registered/thursday island" and Thursday Island c.d.s., all on face, together with part Officially Sealed label, the reverse with two further labels, manuscript "Opened in/error for an/official letter for/this Bch./11-3-97", Brisbane (11.3) and San Francisco (9.4) Registered c.d.s., the form also showing a good strike of the despatch office c.d.s.; the envelope with part missing across the top and sympathetically restored. A remarkable item from this island. Photo

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