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Auction: 13048 - The Robert Marion Collection of Mauritius Stamps and Postal History
Lot: 4090A

MAURITIUS
1858-62 Britannia Issues
1858-62 Imperforate Issue
1859 (10 Apr.) entire from Port Louis to Adelaide, marked "p Benares", bearing uncancelled 4d. green strip of four with margins on three sides, cut-into at top, showing manuscript "2" and arrival d.s. (9.5) with, on reverse, Packet Letter despatch d.s. An unusual franking with similar uncancelled covers to Aden also known. B.P.A. Certificate (2013) states "not possible to certify that the adhesives belong". Photo

provenance:
Peter Jaffé, January 2007

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£1,300