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Auction: 20040 - Stamps and Covers of Southern Africa
Lot: 63

Cape of Good Hope
1815-19 Cape Packet Period
1816 and 1819 entires from London to Cape Town with one "p H.M. Sloop Mosquito", both rated "3/6" and showing Crowned "paid packet letter/london" datestamp (InP4); 1817 (2) entires and 1818 part entire (heavily soiled) from London to Cape Town, variously rated and each showing "india ship letter/london" datestamp (In1 or 2), the last weighing 1¼oz, and rated at "5/10"; 1818 and 1819 entire letters ex the McGregor correspondence from Cape Town to Glasgow, both carried privately with the first put in to the post at Gravesend with mileage handstamp and Glasgow datestamp, the second with no postal markings

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