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Auction: 21010 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale - Conducted behind closed doors
Lot: 4114

South African Maritime Mail from 1677
The "Joachim" Collection
Pietermaritzburg, Robben Island
A World War II selection comprising Pietermaritzburg 1943 covers (3, one censored) with Crowned On Naval Service Africa Station Official Free handstamps with one showing, on reverse, "certified as ship's mail/posted through/the mission seamen/durban" handstamp; Robben Island 1945 covers (3, one censored), two with Sub-Depot S.A. Naval Forces datestamp in violet and one with Degaussing (reducing magnetic field of ships and submarines to counter magnetic mines) Range Officer dated cachet, and Saldanha Bay 1947 cover with H.M.S.A.S. Field Marshall Smuts datestamp in violet (ex J. Driver and apparently the sole example recorded), and one other. An interesting group

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Sold for
£150

Starting price
£150

Sale 21010 Notices
Please note - the estimate has been changed to £220-250, not as listed in the printed catalogue.