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Auction: 13048 - The Robert Marion Collection of Mauritius Stamps and Postal History
Lot: 4091

MAURITIUS
1858-62 Britannia Issues
1858-62 Imperforate Issue
1859 (5 May) entire to Bordeaux (address party re-instated), marked "p Malta, via Aden and Marseilles" bearing untied 4d. green (light staining around margins) with central target cancel, showing handstruck "8" with, on reverse, "packet letter/mauritius" oval datestamps and various French transit and arrival c.d.s.; 1859 (19 Aug.) envelope to Calcutta, marked "per Queen Victoria", bearing 4d. green tied by void obliterator and showing, on reverse, "packet letter/mauritius" oval d.s. and arrival Ship Letter d.s. The latter with R.P.S. Certificate (2002) which states "the stamp cannot be certified as having originated on this cover". S.G. 27

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