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Auction: 20040 - Stamps and Covers of Southern Africa
Lot: 145

Cape of Good Hope
1857-63 Union Steam Ship Co.
Second Contract to and from Cape Town, 1863-68
From Cape of Good Hope
1863 (Apr) brown envelope from Cape Town to Brighton, carried on the Briton on her first return voyage under the 1863 contract and bearing 1/- deep dark green with good to enormous margins nearly all round and clearly cancelled and tied, showing "11" credited to the U.K. and with London Paid (29 May) additionally tying the adhesive, despatch and arrival datestamps on reverse. Photo

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