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Auction: 163 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale
Lot: 1035

French Colonies, Maury #2, 5, 1859-62 5c Green and 40c Vermilion, vertical pair and horizontal strip of three, featuring a very attractive franking with the 5c being large margined, the multiples slightly into in few places, mainly good margins in other respects, all tied to cover via Panama to Lima, Peru by black lozenge cancels, alongside displaying "Guadeloupe/Basse-Terre" c.d.s., "8" décimes due marking which was crossed out in red crayon at the British post office to be charged at 1/4d, being fully prepaid for the French colonial charges, with application of red "Guadeloupe/A/Paid" c.d.s. which seems to have been crossed out and reapplied below after the payment in cash of the packet rate, British "A/Panama" c.d.s. in black, with backstamps including British Guadeloupe and St. Thomas, and Lima on July 2, an eye-catching example of these rare combination frankings additionally sent to a rare destination.

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