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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: 771

Straits Settlements
Early Letters and Handstamps
Penang
1836 (3 Sept.) entire letter from Singapore to London, rated "1/3", showing framed "india letter/liverpool" and, on reverse, a mainly fine strike of boxed "pinang/post office" d.s. in red for 5th September and arrival d.s. (18.4.37); horizontal filing crease across face panel. Approximately eleven examples known of this short-lived datestamp, used from May 1836 to June 1837. Photo

provenance:
Admiral George C. Dyer, November 1984
W.H. Lu, September 1985
Joseph Wong Choon Wing, June 2007

Estimate
SG$4,000 to SG$5,000