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Auction: 168 - The Philatelic Collector's Series Sale
Lot: 756

"Turks-Islands/Ship Letter" two-line handstamp, struck on front of 1863, November 14 envelope from Stockton, California, to Grand Turk, bearing 1861-62 Washington 10c Green, tied by six-bars cancel in red, with dispatch c.d.s. alongside, endorsed at base "In care of John Arthur & Son, Schooner Baltic"; a fine strike of this postmark, which is generally faintly applied, and of which only a handful of examples are believed to exist;

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$2,300