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Auction: 19045 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale
Lot: 530

Gibraltar
Accountancy and Instructional Marks
1858 (9 Nov.) envelope, complete with letter, to The Countess of Hardwick at Wimpole Hall, Cambridgeshire, to her son serving on H.M.S. Euryalos at Ferrol, showing a superb strike of the handstruck "1/-" in blue-green and, on reverse, a fine strike of the "Posted unpaid and opened/in due course, but having/originated out of Gibraltar/forwarded charged with fine" handstamp, with "opened in due course" deleted and showing Gibraltar c.d.s. below, all three in the same ink, also showing Liverpool Ship (17.11), London (18.11), Royston (18.11) and Arrington (19.11) datestamps; interesting contents with a reference to being in quarantine, his friend Prince Alfred who is serving on the same ship and a guard of honour for him "which I believe was expressly against the Queen's wish". A remarkable cover, being one of only two recorded examples of this most unusual handstamps. Photo

provenance:
Robson Lowe auction, 1985
Spink auction, April 2010

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Estimate
£6,000 to £8,000

Starting price
£5000