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Auction: 21045 - The Alan Holyoake Grand Prix Collection of British and International Registered Mail
Lot: 308

(x) Australasia
Victoria
Transit Mail through United Kingdom
1854 (June) (c.) entire letter to Paris by "first sheap" and marked "Registered" in red ink and with "1/2" rate mark, a good strike of the London large crown/"registered", boxed "Colonies/& Art13" both in orange-red with Calais transit, the reverse with London transit (14.9), A good cover paying the 1/- registration fee in cash as the new registered stamps were not yet available. R.P.S. Victoria Certificate (1998)

provenance:

Dale Forster

Ronnie Winchester, July 2017


Pays 8d. private ship letter and 6d. U.K. registration. 1/- local registration paid in cash. The Colonies & Art handstamp was applied on the front of the cover as it was insufficiently prepaid according to the Anglo-French Convention of 1843

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

Estimate
£250 to £300

Starting price
£220