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Auction: 17015 - The Philatelic Collector's Series Sale featuring The "Foxley" Collection of Barbados
Lot: 2196

Cape of Good Hope
1853-83 a mostly used collection neatly written-up in an album including 1853 paper deeply blued, 4d. (3), paper slightly blued 1d. (2, plus a pair and one unused), 4d. (3), 1855-58 1d. deep rose-red (3, one unused), 4d. (18, one on piece and one on 1858 entire, plus two pairs), 6d. pale rose-lilac (3), 6d. deep rose-lilac pair, 6d. slate-lilac (2), 1/- bright yellow-green (5) and 1/- deep dark green, 1858 unofficially rouletted, 6d. (B.P.A. Certificate states "used with blind roulettes at left is genuine as far as one may say"), 1861 'Woodblock' 1d. vermilion, 4d. pale milky blue (2) and 4d. deep bright blue (2), 1863-64 1d. deep carmine-red (4 including a pair), 4d. deep blue (3 including a pair), 4d. blue (7, one mint), 4d. slate-blue and 4d. steel-blue, 6d. (3, one mint plus a mint marginal pair), 1/- (3), 1883 Official reprints 1d. (2), 4d. (2); selection of forgeries (23) plus a entire with forged postmark; also stampless entires (11). Condition mixed with some fine. A very interesting lot. (112 items)

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