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Auction: 14026 - Stamps and Covers of South East Asia including the Peter Cockburn Award Winning Collection of Straits Settlements and Malayan States Revenue Stamps
Lot: 625

Receipt Stamps
Documents
1873 (20 Aug.) receipt for $8.12 being two year's ground rent for land, showing circular "collector/Arms/province wellesley" cachet in red and signed by Frank Swettenham, Collector of Land Revenue, and 1888 (1 Oct.) Quit-Rent receipt for three years rent showing large circular "collector of land revenue/arms/malacca" cachet (crossed by fold). An interesting pair

Note: Frank Swettenham became Governor of the Straits Settlements 1901-04 and was still active on the Malayan Planning Committee in 1943-45.

Sold for
SG$420