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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: 338

(x) Victoria
1885 Stamp Duty Overprints
Covers
1886 (14 May) Pfaff, Pinschof & Co., Melbourne printed envelope registered via Naples to Germany, bearing 2/- ultramarine on green with 1885-95 ½d., 1d. and 4d., all cancelled "1" in circle of thin bars, showing framed "r", Melbourne Registered oval datestamp and, on reverse, Hannover arrival datestamp (22.6). The only recorded example of the 2/- known on cover and a most attractive franking. Photo

provenance:
Richard Stevenson, April 2006

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Sold for
£580