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Auction: 18043 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale
Lot: 635

(x) Basutoland
The South Africa Post Office Period
Incoming Mail
1914 (9 Apr.) envelope from Mongu-Lealui to Jacques Delpech at a mission station at Sesheke, Northern Rhodesia, subsequently readdressed to Rev. Duby via Livingstone (24.4) to Morija (1.5) and again readdressed to the original addressee at Pretoria (7.5), eventually undelivered and returned to the sender with manuscript "Bulawayo Poste Restante" and machine datestamp (10.5), bearing 1910-13 ½d. (2) with despatch datestamp and showing a variety of redirection datestamps on front and reverse; minor soiling around the adhesives though an interesting much travelled cover and full of character, Photo

Note: Jacques Delpech undertook a private trip to Basutoland and Barotseland to discover the "reality of a Mission". He went on a trip up the Zambezi River with Basutoland missionary Rev. Dieterlen between Sesheke and Barotse during 1914. He was a keen photographer and many recorded photographs were taken in Northern Rhodesia

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Sold for
£400