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Auction: 14019 - The "Foxley" Collections of British Guiana and British Honduras
Lot: 1224

British Guiana
1876 Ship Issue
Covers
1880 (5 Mar.) envelope from Abary to Newcastle on Tyne marked "Via Southampton", bearing 12c. pale violet tied by heavy quartered cork obliterator, showing "abary/b.g." c.d.s. (Type D3 with day of month inverted) alongside, Georgetown transit c.d.s. (5.3) with, on reverse, Plymouth and arrival (29.3) datestamps. The only recorded cover and the earliest recorded date. Photo

provenance:
Ted Proud
Derek Nathan, April 2007

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£950