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Auction: 17023 - Fine Stamps and Covers of South East Asia
Lot: 505

Straits Settlements
India used in Straits Settlements
1856 (19 Jan.) entire from Singapore to Hamburg, marked "via Trieste", bearing 4a. 4th printing (4, all cut square, mostly with clear margins and some with light staining), each cancelled by diamond of dots, showing manuscript "12½" Prussian Silbergroschen (deleted) and "17" Schilling (local currency) in blue ink and, on reverse, clear arrival datestamp (1.3). A very rare and outstanding franking. Heddergott Certificate (2002). Photo

provenance:
E.E. Yates, December 1939
Charles Taylor, May 1981
Spink Singapore, June 2000

Sold for
SG$55,000