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Auction: 20040 - Stamps and Covers of Southern Africa
Lot: 90

Cape of Good Hope
General Screw Steam Shipping Co
1850-52 First Contract to and from Cape Town
From Cape of Good Hope
1851-52 entires (3) and envelopes (5) from Cape Town to the U.K., variously rated with seven showing oval-framed "general post office/Crown/cape town" and carried on various ships including Bosphorus, Harbinger, Hellespont, Propontis (2, one under the last regular return of the first contract) and Sir Robert Peel, written by Lt. E.A. Holdich from the Eastern Frontier during the Kaffir War to Sir Harry Smith, Governor of the Cape

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Sold for
£220

Starting price
£180