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Auction: 20040 - Stamps and Covers of Southern Africa
Lot: 143

Cape of Good Hope
1857-63 Union Steam Ship Co.
First Contract to and from Cape Town, 1857-62
From The United Kingdom
1858-62 entires/entire letters/envelopes (6) all franked at 6d., carried on the Bosphorus, Briton, Cambrian and Dane (2), three to Cape Town (one bearing two 1d. strips of three), one to Mossel Bay, one to Port Elizabeth and one to Fort Murray at British Kaffraria, four showing "1d" or manuscript "1" accountancy marks, and 1858 (15 Feb.) entire letter from London to Cape Town by private ship "p Lady McNaghten" after the commencement of the Union Steam Ship Co.'s packet contract. A few faults in places though an interesting group

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