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Auction: 21030 - The 'Greca' Collection of Southern African Postal History
Lot: 97

Cape of Good Hope
Triangulars on Cover
Mail to United Kingdom
1859 (13 June) envelope from Uitenhage to London, bearing 1855 white paper 1d. rose and 4d. blue in combination with blued paper 1d. brick-red, all with margins on two plus sides and twice clearly cancelled, showing red crayon "5", London Paid c.d.s. (29.7) at centre, despatch and Cape Town (15.6) datestamps on reverse; the envelope with flap missing and sympathetically cleaned. A very rare and most unusual combination franking of the 6d. rate which is believed to be one of only two such frankings recorded. Alcuri Certificate (1987). Photo

provenance:
"Franschhoek", June 2012

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