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Auction: 14019 - The "Foxley" Collections of British Guiana and British Honduras
Lot: 1225

British Guiana
1876 Ship Issue
Covers
1880 (3 Apr.) envelope to Paramaribo, marked "per Dutch Steamer", bearing 2c. orange block of four cancelled by two strikes of "blairmont/b.g." c.d.s. (Type D3), showing Georgetown transit c.d.s. (3.4) and clear arrival d.s. (6.4); the envelope with faults on reverse, the 2c. block originally affixed over top edge of entire which has now been refolded to show the entire block. A rare item of mail addressed to Surinam. Photo

provenance:
Anson, September 1988
Christie's Robson Lowe auction, March 1995

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Sold for
£520