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Auction: 18051 - The Yen Boon Swee Collection of Straits Settlements Queen Victoria Postal Stationery
Lot: 1004

Straits Settlements Queen Victoria Postal Stationery
1879 3c. Blue Card (HG 1)
1880 (10 Mar) 3c. blue card to England, cancelled by oval dumb cancel (K20), showing "singapore/paid" c.d.s. (PD10) in red stuck in error and overstruck with small triangular framed "T" (UP11), "singapore/unpaid" c.d.s.(UP8), with blue crayon "½d", and manuscript "1d" added. The postcard rate via Naples was increased to 4c. on 1 Feb 1880. The card is a little soiled but rare as the only card with UP8 marking. Photo

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SG$3,500