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Auction: 18043 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale
Lot: 571

(x) Basutoland
The Cape Post Office Period
Leribe (Thlotse Heights)
1895 (21 Mar.) envelope registered to Winch Brothers in Colchester, bearing ½d. grey, 1d. carmine and 2½d. sage-green (D4) cancelled with several "thlotse/heights" datestamps (D3) and with manuscript "Registered 13" at foot, indistinct London Registered oval datestamp in red at right, the reverse with despatch, Cape Town Registered and arrival (16.4) datestamps; 2½d. adhesives with a few faults though an attractive three-colour registered franking and the latest recorded date of use of the D2 datestamp. Photo

provenance:
Christie's Robson Lowe, September 1995

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Sold for
£350