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Auction: 18043 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale
Lot: 585

(x) Basutoland
The Cape Post Office Period
Maseru
1900 1½d. grey missionary correspondence card from Eduardo Jacottet to Switzerland, cancelled with fine barred oval "281" and with "maseru" datestamp (D3) alongside, arrival datestamp at lower left; the latest recorded date of use of the barred oval "281" and the second day of use of the new Maseru datestamp. Photo

Note: Jacottet arrived in Morija from the Castle Mail Steamer "Grantully Castle" in 1884. He travelled via East London to Basutoland. This card is addressed to the Jacottet's of the Mission Swiss Romande

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Sold for
£80