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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: 157

Straits Settlements
1867-72 Issue
Mail to Australia
1880 (23 Aug.) envelope from the Governor of Straits Settlements (initials and imprint at lower left) to Government House in Perth, marked "Via Galle", bearing 24c. blue-green cancelled by dumb obliterator and showing red "singapore/paid" c.d.s. alongside. A rare destination. (ID). Photo

provenance:
Dr. Chua Eu Tiong, July 2005

Sold for
SG$480