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Auction: 20035 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale
Lot: 3285

Cape of Good Hope
Covers and Cancellations
Forwarding Agents
1860 (12 Apr.) entire letter from Cape Town to London, bearing GB 1d. red applied and cancelled in London, and 1861 (20 Dec.) unstamped entire letter from Cape Town to Cadiz, showing Lombard Street Paid transit c.d.s. (27.1), oval-framed "pd", "franco" h.s. and arrival c.d.s. (2.2), the last two in blue; both letters sent by Thompson, Watson & Co. (forwarding agents) and showing blue "forwarded by/j.r. thompson & co/london" double-lined oval cachet (on the reverse of the latter cover), their agents in London

provenance:
"Table Mountain", June 2001

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Sold for
£180

Starting price
£180