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Auction: 17015 - The Philatelic Collector's Series Sale featuring The "Foxley" Collection of Barbados
Lot: 2264

(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
Georgetown - Type 5
1909 (Apr.) British Bechuanaland registered envelope (284x152mm.; stamp impression cut away) to England, bearing three blocks of twelve (6x2) and a block of eight (4x2) of 1908 ½d., all cancelled (not tied) by "georgetown/grand cayman" double-ring d.s., showing Mobile Alabama and New York Exchange registration labels (the latter applied on one of the blocks and deleted by blue crayon) with, on reverse, New York transit d.s.; the envelope with central vertical fold

provenance:
Edgar Marston, March 1992

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£110