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Auction: 19043 - The Camping Collection of Great Britain
Lot: 656

Great Britain
Surface Printed
1872-73
6d. pale chestnut, abnormal plate 12, OA on mourning cover to Bombay via "Brindisi" and cancelled by Bath "53" duplex dated 1873 (20 June), the reverse with London (20.6), Sea Post Office (27.6) and Poona arrival (3.7) plus an offset of the despatch duplex. One stamp is missing from the cover to make up the 9d. rate and the flap is missing.


A rare and highly important cover as there are only four recorded covers. B.P.A. Certificate number 9383 (undated). S.G. 124a. Photo

provenance:
Joseph Silkin, June 1971

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Sold for
£1,600