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Auction: 18043 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale
Lot: 570

(x) Basutoland
The Cape Post Office Period
Leribe (Thlotse Heights)
1893 (2 Nov.) 1d. brown missionary correspondence card to Rev. A. Mabille at Morija, cancelled with "thlotse/heights" datestamp (D3) with a further strike and Maseru (D2) transit datestamp (3.11) at left, arrival datestamp (D2, 8.11) on reverse. Photo

Note: The Rev. Adolphe Mabille (June 12, 1836-May 20, 1894) was a noted Swiss missionary who worked for the Paris Evangelical Mission Society in Basutoland. He became a philologist of Sesotho, an educator, and a trusted advisor for external affairs to King Moshoeshoe I, the creator of what became the modern Lesotho state, and to his successor, King Letsie I

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Estimate
£150 to £200