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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: 1605

Sarawak
Sarawak-Straits Settlements Combination Covers
1892 (Mar.) envelope registered to Kowloon, bearing 1892 1c. (Type 6) on 3c. purple and blue vertical pair most unusually cancelled by boxed Registered datestamp and with light Hong Kong transit c.d.s. (date unclear) at lower left, the reverse bearing Straits Settlements 1c. on 8c. orange blocks of four and six cancelled by Singapore c.d.s. (25.3). Scarce and attractive. Photo

provenance:
C.M.C. Symes, October 1971
Strutt-Nutting, April 1980

Sold for
SG$8,800