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Auction: 16034 - The Philatelic Collector's Series Sale
Lot: 1016

1857 (1 Apr.) Blued Paper, Watermark Star, Imperforate
Covers
6d. rate to United Kingdom via Southampton
1857 (30 Sept.) quadruple rate front and part back to London, incorrectly marked "Via Marseilles", bearing 6d. purple-brown strip of four slightly cut-into at left and touched in two places at foot, cancelled in manuscript and oval of bars, showing red Paid arrival c.d.s. (28.10) and, on reverse, "colombo/steamer-letter" c.d.s.. Rare, the largest recorded multiple on cover. S.G. 1. Photo

provenance:
Frederic Harris, February 1951

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Sold for
£3,200