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Auction: 14019 - The "Foxley" Collections of British Guiana and British Honduras
Lot: 1223

British Guiana
1876 Ship Issue
Covers
1880 (5 Jan.) envelope from Georgetown to London, bearing 8c. rose (faults) tied by cork obliterator, showing despatch c.d.s. with red Paid arrival (26.1) datestamps alongside and rare octagonal-framed "demerari/paq. fr. c. no 1" at left (rare, Salles only records five examples of this datestamp); also 1882 (5 Oct.) small part front and part back of an opened-out envelope from Belfield to England, bearing 2c. and 6c. tied by c.d.s. with "demerari/paq. fr. c. no1" d.s. alongside and red "ligne a/paq. fr. no" octagonal d.s. on reverse. Photo

provenance:
Peter Jaffé, October 2006

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Sold for
£1,200