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Auction: 15USA - The William H. Gross Collection
Lot: 57

S.G. #19, 1864 4p Deep blue, a lovely square pair, used in combination with Perkins Bacon 6p Slate lilac single on an immaculate 1864 folded registered letter from the South African Central Bank in Graaf Reinet, addressed to Middelberg, both the pair and the single with exceptional margins nearly all around, plus each features spectacularly intense color and impression, neatly tied by triangular cancellations, manuscript ""Registered"" at bottom left, perfect strike of ""Graaf Reinett/Sp 28/1864 red oval on reverse, extremely fine; an incredibly beautiful and desirable cover, displaying a very scarce combination franking in amazing quality; certainly one of the very finest Cape triangular postal history items and one of the great De La Rue covers; ex-Indhusophon (Scott Estimate US$ 9,600-12,000

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