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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: 1046

(x) Victoria
Registered Mail 1847-1876
Mail to Switzerland
1866 (12 Feb.) envelope from Sandhurst to Locarno, bearing Woodblock 2/- and Laureated 2d., both cancelled by Barred Numeral "4", showing oval-framed "registered" and Melbourne c.d.s. in blue-green, boxed "pd" and Marseilles entry d.s. in red, "charge" h.s. and, on reverse, various French and Swiss transit datestamps; the envelope slightly soiled. Photo

provenance:
J.R.W. Purves, May 1983

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Sold for
£480