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Auction: 21030 - The 'Greca' Collection of Southern African Postal History
Lot: 100

Cape of Good Hope
Triangulars on Cover
Mail to United Kingdom
1860 (21 Apr.) envelope from Cape Town to Birmingham, marked "per Athens", bearing 1858 6d. pale rose-lilac with unofficial wide roulettes, clearly tied by messy triangular obliterator, showing red London Paid transit c.d.s. (25.5) alongside with despatch and arrival datestamps on reverse. Very rare, only a few covers recorded. F.W. Collins Certificate (1983). Photo

provenance:
"Lady Hope", Novembr 2003

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Sold for
£2,700

Starting price
£1200