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Auction: 21010 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale - Conducted behind closed doors
Lot: 4101

South African Maritime Mail from 1677
The "Joachim" Collection
Durban
1858 (7 Oct.) entire "p Waldensian" to Cape Town and rated "8" as a ship letter on arrival, bearing embossed 3d. rose (20x27mm., one corner crease) placed sideways and cancelled with the "Crown/natal" datestamp and showing arrival oval datestamp (16.10); two creases on face panel well clear of the adhesive. Briefmarkenprufstelle Certificate (1998). Photo

Note|: In February 1858 John T. Rennie received a contract to carry mails between Port Natal (Durban) and Cape Town. The coasters "Waldensian" and "Madagascar" were used for the service. By 1862 both had been wrecked and the service ceased

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£210

Starting price
£210