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Auction: 21045 - The Alan Holyoake Grand Prix Collection of British and International Registered Mail
Lot: 264

(x) Australasia
Mail from the United Kingdom
1847 (16 Dec.) Registered Letter receipt, number "217" addressed to Sydney bearing Charing Cross Paid Maltese Cross datestamp, a second strike, incorrectly dated (15.12) has been overstruck by the Charing Cross bag seal handstamp in the same ink; usual vertical creases. An interesting receipt and the only example bearing a bag seal handstamp

provenance:
Vivien Sussex, March 2002

Subject to 5% tax on Hammer Price in addition to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium.

Estimate
£400 to £500

Starting price
£350