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Auction: 20040 - Stamps and Covers of Southern Africa
Lot: 168

Cape of Good Hope
1868-76 Union Steam Ship Co.
Third Contract to and from Cape Town
From Cape of Good Hope
1870 envelopes from Bedford, Cape Town and King Williams Town to England or Scotland, each bearing 1/- and carried on the Cambrian eighth or the Roman fifth or eighth return sailings, 1873-76 Atlantic Service period envelopes (7) to England franked at 1/- (6) or 6d. (after reduction in tariff on 1 July 1876) and carried on the Anglian, Danube, European, Nyassa (written by Percy Vigors, High Sheriff of the Cape Colony), Roman and Teuton; also 1869 entire letter from Simons Town to the Postmaster-General at Cape Town, being a request for a refund of postage to a crew member of a Coal Hulk Seringapatam

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£230

Starting price
£120