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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: 1022

(x) Victoria
Registered Mail 1847-1876
Mail to France
1858 (11 Aug.) envelope from Eaglehawk to France, bearing Woodblock 6d with Octagonal 1/- vertical pair and singles (2), all cancelled by crisp Barred Numeral "136", showing Sandhurst transit d.s. (11.8), oval-framed "pd", "Crown/registered" h.s. and Registered London oval d.s. (18.10), all in red, handstruck "d6", Calais entry d.s., "charge" h.s. and, on reverse, despatch, Melbourne and French transit datestamps; the envelope with four wax seals cut away on reverse. A spectacular and rare franking from a small post office. Photo

provenance:
Roland Geitenbeek, October 2014

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Sold for
£3,500