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Auction: 20040 - Stamps and Covers of Southern Africa
Lot: 181

Cape of Good Hope
The Union Steamship Company and Castle Line
Packet Letters to and from the Cape
1877 (31 July) envelope from Percy Vigors (High Sherriff of the Cape Colony) from Cape Town to Major Vigors of the 1/19 Regiment at Aldershot, bearing 6d. and carried on the Balmoral Castle; 1878 (13 Feb.) envelope from King Williams Town to London carried on the Union Line Nubian; 1878 (Apr.) double rate front from Cape Town to York carried on the Union Line Asiatic; 1879 envelope registered "Per Warwick Castle" to Paris and redirected to Couilly, franked at 1/3½d.; 1881 envelope from King Williams Town to Germany carried on the PretoriaConway Castle and the Trojan, franked at 6½d.; all three showing "2½d" accountancy handstamp in red

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