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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: 1031

(x) Victoria
Registered Mail 1847-1876
Mail to Switzerland
1857 (17 Jan.) underpaid envelope from Sandhurst to Locarno, bearing marginal "registered" 1/-, Woodblock 2/- pair (cut-into) and Queen on Throne 6d. pair (cut-into at right), all affixed slightly overlapping and cancelled by Barred Numeral "4", showing despatch d.s., "Crown/registered" h.s. and London Registered oval d.s., both in red, handstruck "d6" and, on reverse, Melbourne, Basel and arrival datestamps; the stamps have been lifted and replaced and the envelope slightly soiled, nevertheless rare and full of character. R.P.S. (1998) and RPSV (2008) Certificates, the former states "cannot be certified as all originating on cover" and the latter "stamps.....are original. Photo

Note: In "The Pre-UPU Destination Mail of Victoria" by Ben Palmer, he states "I do not believe a stamp is missing from this cover"

provenance:
J.R.W. Purves, May 1981

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Sold for
£8,500