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Auction: 20035 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale
Lot: 3006

(x) The Toulmin Packet Service
U.K. to Australia
Voyage 33
1846 (24 Sept) OHMS entire, with “Admiralty, Somerset House” imprint at lower left, from London to Sydney, carried on the “Sydney”, showing despatch Paid datestamp in red and, on reverse, “ship letter/sydney” arrival datestamp (27.1)

Note: The “Sydney” left Gravesend on 1 October and put into Falmouth. She sailed again on 14 October and arrived in Sydney on 27 January 1847, 118 days passage

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£95

Starting price
£80