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Auction: 21045 - The Alan Holyoake Grand Prix Collection of British and International Registered Mail
Lot: 284

(x) Australasia
New South Wales
Registered Stamps
1857 (10 Mar.) blue envelope addressed to Lord Ivory, Edinburgh "per first vessel ..." bearing 1854 Laureated 3d. yellow-greed (2, mixed margins) with 1856-59 (6d.) salmon and indigo registered stamp cancelled by "87" barred ovals with unframed "registered/ipswich" in the lower corner, the adhesives are tied by a manuscript "6" and the first type London open "registered/g.p.o." dated oval, the reverse with Ipswich despatch, Sydney (23.3) and Edinburgh (13.6). There is some light soiling

Pays 6d. packet letter plus 6d. registration

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

Sold for
£1,000

Starting price
£300