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Auction: 15030 - The Philatelic Collector's Series Sale
Lot: 3219

Burma
Campaigns and Military Mail
Other Military Mail
1893 (Mar.) Soldiers' and Seamans' 9p. envelope from "2543 Lce Cpl E Haward Det 1st Norfolk Regt Port Blair" to England, countersigned by Commanding Officer, cancelled with Port Blair squared-circle d.s.; upon arrival the envelope endorsed "Gone no address" and showing framed "gone no address/488" h.s. and with two different King's Lynn d.s. (11.4), the reverse with two further transit c.d.s., London Returned Letter Office c.d.s. (12.40, boxed "d.l.o./bombay" d.s. (5.6) and similar for Rangoon (22.6); small part reverse torn away and with other small faults, nevertheless very rare and full of character. Photo

provenance:
Gerald Davis, March 1990
Gerald Sattin, June 2008

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Sold for
£800