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Auction: 15041 - The "Sentosa" Collection of Straits Settlements, Malayan States, Labuan, North Borneo and Sarawak sale during the International Exhibition
Lot: 1485

North Borneo
Postage Due Stamps
1895-97 Issue
1899 (31 Aug.) unstamped envelope from Budapest to Batu Peteh Estate, Sandakan, showing large "T" in blue crayon and "T" handstamp, and bearing 12c. black and blue and 24c. blue and rose-lake vertical pair twice neatly cancelled by Sandakan c.d.s. (4.10) with a further Sandakan c.d.s. in a different style on reverse. Extremely rare. Photo

provenance:
Patrick Cassels, April 2008

Sold for
SG$5,000