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Auction: 16034 - The Philatelic Collector's Series Sale
Lot: 1764

Grenada
1875 Watermark Large Star
1877 (27 Oct.) neat envelope to France bearing 1d. green (2) with diagonal bisect and 1873 6d. orange-vermilion cancelled by indistinct strikes of Sauters "C" circular datestamp (the "27 OCT" is easy to read) with "1/0½" rate mark in red crayon, London Paid transit (29.11) and French transit whilst bearing, on the reverse, type D5 despatch c.d.s. and a second strike dated (6.11), Paris and arrival c.d.s. The stamps have been torn from the cover which has been professionally restored though still a magnificent and extremely rare cover. B.P.A. Certificate 2007). Photo

provenance:
W. Taylor, April 1963
W. Danforth Walker, June 2003

This is one of three bisect covers from outlying parish post offices to France and three covers to France from St. George's. All six covers credit Great Britain 1/0½, regardless of whether there was enough postage to cover this amount

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Sold for
£4,500