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Auction: 21030 - The 'Greca' Collection of Southern African Postal History
Lot: 131

Cape of Good Hope
Wreck Mail
1900 (Apr.) ½d. stationery card (additional stamp missing) from Cape Town to Germany, handstamped "per s.s. mexican" in violet at top left, showing good to fine strike of the German (Type 2) cachet which translates as "From the sunken/steamer *Mexican* that was/carrying mail from Cape Town/Railway Post Office No 15". Photo

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