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Auction: 19029 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale
Lot: 231

Cape of Good Hope
Covers and Cancellations
Military Mail
1864 sailor's envelope "From George Williams, Seaman Royal Naval Hospital, Simons Town" to Wellington, Somerset, countersigned by the Commanding Officer and bearing G.B.1d. red cancelled "250" on arrival with Cape packet Devonport datestamp alongside, and 1879 sailors envelope "From Alfred Heppell, Seaman . H.M.S. Industrys, Simons Bay" to Exeter, countersigned by the Commanding Officer and bearing G.B. 1d. red cancelled "B16" (Plymouth and Bristol Sorting Carriage); a few faults in places though an unusual pair

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Sold for
£300