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Auction: 16034 - The Philatelic Collector's Series Sale
Lot: 2812

Trinidad
Maritime Mail
1869 (16 Dec.) entire letter from Ciudad Bolivar, Venezuela (sender's cachet on front) to Trinidad showing blue crayon "3" and a fine strike of the straight-line "ship=letter" (type SP2) handstamp in red and, on the reverse, Trinidad double-arc arrival (21.12); two vertical filing folds (one through the handstamp). Believed to be the earliest of twenty one examples of the handstamp. Photo

provenance:
Sir John Marriott, September 2001



Illustrated: Trinidad by Marriott et al, 2010 (page 203)

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Sold for
£380