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Auction: 17022 - The Philatelic Collector's Series Sale featuring The Ronnie Winchester Collection and fine sections of Belgium, Cape of Good Hope Rectangular Issues and Griqualand West
Lot: 1019

(x) Victoria
Registered Mail 1847-1876
Mail to Denmark
1856 (5 Dec.) envelope from Ballarat to Brunsbüttel, Schleswig-Holstein (now part of Germany), bearing Woodblock 6d and "registered" 1/- (both touched or just cut-into), both tied by slightly heavy Barred Numeral "5", showing various rate markings, "Crown/registered" h.s. in red, London Registered d.s. (16.3), framed "Recomandirt" in red and, on reverse, despatch, Melbourne, Aachen (17.3) and Royal Danish Postal Agency in Hamburg (18.3) datestamps. A rare destination and a most attractive franking. Photo

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Sold for
£12,000