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Auction: 18043 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale
Lot: 1398

Tasmania
1859 (12 Dec.) entire letter from Hobart Town "Via Marseilles" to London, bearing 1857-59 1d. red-brown, 2d. green and 1858 Perkins Bacon 6d. dull lilac and 1/- vermilion, all with clear to large margins except 6d. which is touched at right, all neatly cancelled "62" with the 6d. additionally tied by "general-post-office/hobart-town" despatch datestamp of 13 December, arrival datestamp (4.2) on reverse; the 2d. value a little soiled, otherwise a spectacular and most attractive four-colour franking of great rarity. Holcombe (1984) and B.P.A. (2014, incorrectly identifying the 6d. as S.G. 48) Certificates. Photo

provenance:
Koichi Sato, June 2014

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