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Auction: 20026 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale - conducted behind closed doors
Lot: 1169

Griqualand West
1872-97 group on pages comprising 1896 and 1898 envelopes ex the Bobart correspondence from Douglas to Malvern and Bristol respectively and both redirected, one bearing ½d. grey and 1d. red pair, the other with ½d. green and d. red pair, all cancelled "8" with despatch datestamp alongside, the first with Malvern large part duplex at right, 1897 1d. pink envelope, uprated with 1d. (5), registered from Kimberley to Johannesburg, all cancelled "227", 1900 mourning envelope from Kimberley to a P.O.W. at Green Point, franked at 1d. which was originally defaced in blue crayon and taxed "T2d" in the same colour, subsequently revered and twice cancelled "227", loose adhesives (10) similarly cancelled and undated ½d. grey wrapper from Kimberley to London cancelled "227" in horizontal oval of bars and 1872 and 1873 mourning envelopes ex the same correspondence from Grahamstown to Klipsdrift, both bearing 4d. blue cancelled with indistinct "3" in oval of bars and showing, on reverse, despatch c.d.s. and fair Diamond Fields oval datestamp

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Sold for
£170

Starting price
£80