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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: 1058

(x) Victoria
Registered Mail 1847-1876
Mail to United Kingdom
1857 (27 May) double rate envelope from Melbourne to London, marked "pr Simla via Marseilles", bearing "registered" 1/- and Woodblock 6d. pair (touched at foot), both tied by Barred Numeral "1", showing manuscript "6" and red Registered arrival d.s. (27.7) with despatch d.s. on reverse. RPSV Certificate (1984). Photo

Note:: This cover was carried by E & A "Simla" from Melbourne to Suez, the overland to Alexandria. On arrival there, on 12 July, there were no E & A vessels, nor was there any P & O vessel to take UK mail. However, the British Consul requisitioned the screw steamer "Scamander" to take the "via Marseilles" mail to Malta. There, the E & A "Cambria" which had arrived from Marseilles took the overland mail back there and so the letter arrived in London on 27 July, 11 days late.

provenance:
Henry Harvey, May 1976

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Sold for
£1,700