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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: 181

Straits Settlements
1867-72 Issue
Mail to Spain
1878 (May) envelope from Singapore to Madrid, bearing 12c blue (a few stained perfs) tied by firm's chop and indistinct cancel, showing poor "singapore/paid" c.d.s. in red and octagonal "poss. angl./paq. fr. n no 8" d.s. A scarce destination. (CJS). Photo

provenance:
George Dyer, November 1984

Estimate
SG$500 to SG$600