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Auction: 20040 - Stamps and Covers of Southern Africa
Lot: 153

Cape of Good Hope
1857-63 Union Steam Ship Co.
Second Contract to and from Cape Town, 1863-68

The Extension to Natal, From Natal
1863 (1 Sept.) envelope "Per Mail Steamer" from Durban to London by the from Durban to Cape Town and the Saxon second return passage under the second contract, bearing 6d. grey pair tied by watery Crown datestamps and with London Paid datestamp (20.10) at centre; minor flap faults though a very fast voyage by the Saxon arriving at Devonport on the 19 October though with no marks of arrival

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