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Auction: 21010 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale - Conducted behind closed doors
Lot: 4100

South African Maritime Mail from 1677
The "Joachim" Collection
Cape of Good Hope Shipping Postmaster Handstamps of the Union Castle Line
1937 (25 Mar.) envelope (227x152mm.) registered from the German East Africa Agent at Aden to his counterpart in Cape Town and endorsed "Ship not due Return to sender", bearing India 1a. (8) cancelled with double-ring datestamp and showing, on reverse, "shipping postmaster/cape town" (Type 13) double-ring datestamp (21.4) in violet, Mombasa (5.4), Cape Town D.L.O. (13.5) and Aden (16.6) datestamps; a couple of small imperfections though a highly unusual item of commercial mail

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Estimate
£120 to £150

Starting price
£80