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Auction: 19029 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale
Lot: 433

Cyprus
1882 Surcharges
Watermark Crown CC
½ on ½pi. Emerald-Green
A Rare Soldier's Rate Franking
1882 (18 Sept.) soldier's envelope "From Lance Sergeant W.T. Clarke" at Troodos to England, countersigned by the Commanding Officer of the Reserve Depot and bearing two examples with one showing variety spur on "1", each marked "P P" in manuscript, lightly cancelled "D47" and showing Troodos c.d.s. at left, the reverse (part flap missing) with part Limassol squared-circle d.s. (19.9) and Croydon arrival c.d.s. (26.9); the envelope with a few small imperfections though an exceptionally rare soldier's rate franking. Photo

provenance:
"Aphrodite", February 2009

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Sold for
£4,500