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Auction: 21135 - The 'Ruby' Collection of Burma Postal History
Lot: 228

(x) Burma
Mandalay
1884 (23 Mar.) ½a. stationery envelope (pinhole in stamp impression) to London cancelled by "mandalay/w" c.d.s. (Type D15; earliest recorded date), uprated with 2a. tied by "mandalay/w." squared-circle d.s. (Type KD15); 1894 Official ¼a. stationery card from Calcutta to Mandalay redirected to Rangoon, showing "mandalay/2nd dely" (3.11; Type DY5, earlier than recorded); 1898 (2 Oct.) 2a.6p. stationery envelope to Cheltenham cancelled by "fort dufferin/x./mandalay" c.d.s. (Type D3; eight days later than recorded); and 1898 (11 Dec.) 2a.6p. stationery envelope to England, cancelled by "fort dufferin/w./mandalay" c.d.s. (unlisted by Proud)

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