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Auction: 19015 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale
Lot: 1929

Rhodesia
Covers and Cancellations
1895 (Feb.) Mashonaland 1½d. card, uprated with 1d. black, ex the Hellmuth correspondence to Bavaria, both cancelled "82* at Umtali and with Umtali (13.3), Salisbury (18.3), Cape Town (3.4) and Nuremberg (21.4) datestamps all on face, the card headed from "Inyame" includes " I am writing this 40 miles from Umtali at a local full of Kaffirs where I have been buying goats and sheep. I am writing this with the blood of a goat for ink and the feather of a fowl for a pen". Photo

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Sold for
£260