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Auction: 20040 - Stamps and Covers of Southern Africa
Lot: 79

Cape of Good Hope
1840-50 Ship Letters
1840 (Nov.) entire letters (2) ex the John Moore Craig correspondence, brother to the first wife of Governor George Napier, the first written from Grahamstown to his niece Sarah Napier in Suffolk and signed "Geo Napier" to ensure free Cape postage, the second from Government House to Craig's mother in Scotland, both rated "8" and showing fair and fine Crowned "general post office/cape of good hope" DLS4 datestamps respectively; the first with some edge faults though an interesting and unusual pair

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Estimate
£200 to £250

Starting price
£120