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Auction: 15046 - The Philatelic Collector's Series Sale featuring the John Sussex Collection of South West Africa,1880-1928
Lot: 1358

South West Africa - The Award Winning Collection Formed by John Sussex, RDP, FRPSL
German South West Africa
Postal History
1851 (5 Aug.) entire letter from a German missionary in Southern Africa, sent via Cape Town by a British ship to London and forwarded by the Prussian Consul General to the Berlin Missionary Society, with good double oval "general post office/(crown)/cape town" on the front and a variety of manuscript rate markings, red London arrival (21.10) on reverse; fine and exceptionally rare. Photo

provenance:
R.D. Jatetzy

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Estimate
£1,500 to £2,000