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Auction: 18039 - Fine Stamps and Covers of South East Asia, Including The Dr. Cheah Jin Seng Collections of Straits Settlements and Kedah, and The Iain Dyce collection of Straits Settlements
Lot: 74

Straits Settlements
India used in Straits Settlements
1854 Lithographed Issue

Singapore
1855 (17 Aug.) entire letter to Hamburg, marked "via Trieste", bearing 4a. blue and red 4th printing horizontal pair (outer frameline cut-into at left, cancelled by diamond of dots, showing blue manuscript "6¼" and "8½" with, on reverse, clear arrival datestamp (30.9); some slight wear along folds and other lesser faults. (ID). Photo

provenance:
Charles Taylor, May 1981

Sold for
SG$23,000