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Auction: 18047 - The Chartwell Collection of Australian States and Commonwealth, an unreserved auction for the benefit of the Chartwell Philanthropic Educational Programme
Lot: 272

(x) Victoria
Half Length
Covers
1857 ( Jan.) narrow border mourning envelope from Prahran to Bulla Bulla, bearing 3d. blue (margins largely all round) in combination with 1856 Queen on Throne 1d. yellow-green sharing light Barred Numeral "69", the reverse (written all over) with despatch and arrival datestamps, an attractive mixed-issue franking. Also 1858 (Dec.) envelope from Indigo (manuscript marking on reverse) to Edinburgh, bearing 1858 Queen on Throne 6d. blue cancelled with an ink squiggle and with oval-framed "insufficiently paid/via marseilles" handstamp in red, two creases, one crossing the adhesive though an unusual franking

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Sold for
£250