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Auction: 21010 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale - Conducted behind closed doors
Lot: 4439

India
1854 Issue
1856 entire from Switzerland "via Galle" to Carlowitz Harkort & Co. in Canton, bearing 4a. blue and red 5th. Printing horizontal pair with good to large margins, both neatly cancelled "B/1" and showing, on reverse, Calcutta and Hong Kong (23.5) datestamps; an interesting commercial letter regarding commodities and referring to "coolies running away by thousands" to avoid an outbreak of cholera

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Sold for
£32,000

Starting price
£950