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Auction: 21010 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale - Conducted behind closed doors
Lot: 4121

South African Maritime Mail from 1677
The "Joachim" Collection

Foreign Lines
Germany
1907 (13 Mar.) envelope carried on the S.S. Eduard Bohlen to Swakopmund, bearing ½d. and 1d. sharing "deutsche seepost-linie/deutsch/sudwestafrika/capstadt" oval datestamp with code "I" below date, no arrival datestamp; also Cape 1d. pair and a strip of three with similar oval datestamps, the pair with larger letters than cover, the strip with code "II" without stop, small letters and used on the Aline Woermann (very rare with only five covers recorded). 1911 (19 Jan) Dart & Co. shipping agent's envelope from Cape Town on the Burgermeister to Windhoek, bearing ½d, and 1d. (2) cancelled with three fair strikes of the "deutsche seepost/ost/afrikanische/haup linie" datestamp with code "a", arrival datestamp (22.1) on reverse. Scarce

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