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Auction: 17015 - The Philatelic Collector's Series Sale featuring The "Foxley" Collection of Barbados
Lot: 2218

(x) Cayman Islands
Covers and Cancellations
Type numbers in this section are taken from "The Postal History of the Cayman Islands" by Giraldi and McCann
The Rural Post - Type RP1
1912 envelope registered to Pittsburg, bearing 1907 ½d. block of six (3x2), 1d. and 1908 ¼d. pair cancelled by four strikes of framed "rural post/collection/grand cayman" in blackish violet, showing "R" in oval, Grand Cayman registration label (Type R3) and, on reverse, Kingston Registered (7.3) and New York (13.3) transit datestamps; the envelope rather discoloured on reverse. Very rare. Photo

provenance:
Edgar Marston, March 1992

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Sold for
£650