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Auction: 19045 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale
Lot: 532

Gibraltar
Accountancy and Instructional Marks
1875 (4 Sept.) entire to Genoa, marked "pr Nantes", bearing GB 2d. blue Plate 14 cancelled "A26" and with Gibraltar c.d.s. at top centre, received too late for despatch by this vessel and showing a superb strike of the "too-late" h.s. together with "con Bastin Mercant" h.s. (only found on mail on merchantmen coming from South America), upon arrival franked with 40c. Postage Due cancelled with penmarks and Genoa c.d.s. (9.9); filing crease crosses the Postage due. The only recorded example of the Too Late handstamp. Photo

provenance:
Spink auction, April 2010

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Sold for
£400

Starting price
£400