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Auction: 19015 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale
Lot: 1318

British Guiana
The "Coventry" Collection Featuring 1852-76 Ship Stamps
1860-76 Issues, Covers
To The United States of America
1873 (8 Dec.) entire from Georgetown "p United States & Brazil Steamer via St. Thomas" to Philadelphia, bearing 1863-68 perf. 12½-13 2c. orange and 8c. rose both neatly cancelled "A03" with a good strike of the "A03" duplex with "pa4id" accountancy handstamp (Type A7) in red below alongside "n.y. steamship/10" datestamp (20.12), arrival datestamp (20.120 on reverse; both adhesives with small perf. faults through having been affixed just over top of entire, nevertheless an attractive franking. Photo

provenance:
Derek Nathan, April 2007

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Sold for
£1,600