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Auction: 18037 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale
Lot: 1600

Virgin Islands
Early Letters and Handstamps
Straight-line Handstamp
1798 (31 Dec.) entire letter to Inverness, rated "2/-" (deleted), "2/2" (deleted) and "2/8", marked "p the Packet", showing good to fine "tortola" handstamp (Proud Type PS4) partly overstruck by light Edinburgh Bishopmark in red with London transit d.s. (13.2) on reverse. Rare. Photo

provenance:
Britton Stitt, May 1970
J.L. Fredrick, October 1992

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Sold for
£420