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Auction: 19015 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale
Lot: 2075

(x) South Africa
1925 Airmail Issue
Covers
1929 (9 Oct.) envelope registered from Umbilo Road, Durban to Bloemfontein, bearing 9d. green marginal example from the left of the sheet, variety imperforate between stamp and margin and showing extended strut flaw, and Postage 1d. and 4d., all neatly cancelled by double-ring datestamp, registration handstamp at foot, despatch and arrival (10.9) datestamps on reverse. Only thirty-six of the 9d. imperforate between stamp and margin variety were issued, nearly all of which remain mint. Very rare. Photo

provenance:
Marquis of Bute

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Sold for
£400