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Auction: 163 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale
Lot: 1036

French Colonies, Maury #9, 1871 30c Brown, horizontal pair, margins large to just touching on two sides, paying the inter-Antillean and US rate on April 10, 1873 entire folded letter to Portland, United States, endorsed "Per Brazil & U.S. Mail Str", tied by lozenge cancel, "Guadeloupe/Pointe-à-Pitre" c.d.s., posted through the British Agency with light strike of rare "Guadeloupe/Paid" c.d.s. in red, "4" pence for the British packet rate in red crayon, with small British "Guadeloupe" c.d.s. in red on reverse, entered the U.S. with New York steamship "10" accounting c.d.s.; fine and rare.

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