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Auction: 20040 - Stamps and Covers of Southern Africa
Lot: 140

Cape of Good Hope
1857-63 Union Steam Ship Co.
First Contract to and from Cape Town, 1857-62
From Cape of Good Hope
1862 (20 June) blue envelope from Cape Town "per R.M.S. Briton" on her second return voyage to London, bearing 6d. pale rose-lilac with good to large margins, cancelled and tied leaving much of portrait clear, showing manuscript "5" credited to the U.K. alongside London Paid datestamp (1.8), despatch datestamp on reverse. B.P.A. Certificate (1989). Photo

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