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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: 96

Straits Settlements
India used in Straits Settlements
1855-65 De La Rue Issues
Singapore
Mail to Hong Kong
1865 (14 June) entire letter ex the Heard correspondence from London to Hong Kong, marked "p Str Clan Alpine", bearing 1a. brown tied by "B/172" obliterator, showing manuscript "4", framed "singapore/ship letter/bg" d.s. and, on reverse, blue Boustead & Co forwarding agent cachet and arrival c.d.s. (6.8). (CJS). Photo

provenance:
George C. Dyer, November 1984

Sold for
SG$2,500