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Auction: 21010 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale - Conducted behind closed doors
Lot: 4094

South African Maritime Mail from 1677
The "Joachim" Collection
Cape of Good Hope Shipping Postmaster Handstamps of the Union Castle Line
1927 (4 Sept.) 1½d. postcard, uprated with 4d. pair, registered to Germany, twice cancelled by very fine "shipping postmaster/3/capetown" (Type 8) oval datestamp in grey and showing crude "R" handstamp and arrival datestamp, and 1929 (5 Aug.) British Wireless Marine Service "Ocean Letter" envelope registered locally and bearing 2d. and 3d. sharing a largely fine strike of the oval-framed "shipping postmaster/3/cape town" (Type 8) in violet and with a further strike at left. An attractive pair

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Estimate
£250 to £300

Starting price
£180