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Auction: 20035 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale
Lot: 3033

(x) The Toulmin Packet Service
Australia to U.K.
Voyage 21
1847 (1 July) missionary entire letter from Tahiti to London, carried by the “Sunflower”, rated “3” (deleted) and “1/-“, showing “paid ship letter/sydney” oval d.s. (11.9) with arrival c.d.s. (5.2) on reverse, both in red

Note: The “Sunflower” left Sydney on 12 September with the mails landed at Gravesend and arriving in London on 5 February 1848, 146 days passage

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£650

Starting price
£650