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Auction: 15023 - The Philatelic Collector's Series Sale
Lot: 2262

(x) Malaya
Straits Settlements: 1895 (25 Mar.) The Eastern Extension Australia & China Telegraph Company Telegram envelope registered to Riouw (D.E.I.) with 1892-99 3c. carmine-rose and 5c. brown vertical pair tied by two strikes of Singapore c.d.s. and large violet ovals of the Telegraph office with boxed registered handstamp at foot; the reverse with red wax seal of the telegraph company and squared circle "n-i agent singapore" c.d.s. Roughly opened at right and light cover fold but still a fine and scarce cover. The only recorded early Malaya franked Telegram envelope. Photo

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Sold for
£210