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Auction: 20040 - Stamps and Covers of Southern Africa
Lot: 141

Cape of Good Hope
1857-63 Union Steam Ship Co.
First Contract to and from Cape Town, 1857-62
From Cape of Good Hope carried by H.M. Ship
1859 (late July) unfranked envelope from the Cape to Devon, probably carried on H.M.S. Perseverance which arrived at Portsmouth on 7 September, Portsmouth and Portsea datestamps on face, no apparent charges which if put into the post at Cape Town should have been 6d. or 1d. if posted at Portsea; and 1859 (Nov.) envelope from Capt. Wainwright commanding H.M.S. Leopard off the coast of South America to Mrs. Maclear at the Royal Observatory at Cape Town, Simons Town and Cape Town oval datestamps on reverse, manuscript "6" on face though no indication of where the charge had been applied. An unusual pair

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