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Auction: 19015 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale
Lot: 2757

(x) Channel Islands
Sark
1858 (26 Feb.) entire letter from Louisa Mary Harvey to her brother Capt. Jack Harvey "25th. Regt., Gibraltar or elsewhere", bearing 1855 wing-margin 6d. lilac neatly cancelled "324" and showing, on reverse, a superb strike of the circular-undated "sark" handstamp alongside Guernsey (4.3) and London (6.3) datestamps. A great rarity with only a handful examples recorded, this believed to be the earliest date known. Photo

provenance:
Arthur Steiner, December 1981

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Sold for
£4,800