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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: 1030

(x) Victoria
Registered Mail 1847-1876
Mail to Switzerland
1856 (22 Mar.) envelope from Sandhurst to Locarno, bearing Woodblock 6d. (faults) and "registered" 1/- Die I tied by Barred Numeral "4", showing despatch d.s. at lower left, framed "colonies/&c. art - 18" in red, London handstruck "d6", Calais entry c.d.s. (additionally tying the stamps), "charge/d'office" (Officially Registered) h.s. applied in France (the only example known on mail from Victoria) and, on reverse, Melbourne and various transit and arrival datestamps; the envelope a little soiled. Photo

provenance:
Henry Harvey, November 1976
Tony Rigo de Righi, October 1982
Roland Geitenbeek, October 2014

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Sold for
£950