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Auction: 20040 - Stamps and Covers of Southern Africa
Lot: 180

Cape of Good Hope
The Donald Currie Line
Ship and Packet Letter Sailings from The United Kingdom
1878 (19 Aug.) envelope from Colchester to Pietermaritzburg, bearing 1d. Plate 194 vertical strip of three and singles (3) cancelled by "210" duplex and showing, on reverse, a good strike of the rare framed "send back to england/without a reason/for non delivery" handstamp in red alongside G.P.O. Natal datestamp; trivial imperfections though a scarce cover that could possibly have been carried on the Union Steamship Co. Briefmarkenprufstelle Certificate (2004)

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