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Auction: 21135 - The 'Ruby' Collection of Burma Postal History
Lot: 230

(x) Burma
Mandalay
Fort Dufferin
1898 (25 Sept.) and (18 Dec.) 2½a. stationery envelopes from the same correspondence to England, both cancelled by "fort dufferin/x./mandalay" c.d.s. (Type D4; the latter the latest recorded date); 1904 (2 June) ¼a. stationery cards (2, one with corner missing) from the same correspondence to Kent, both with local painting on reverse, cancelled by "fort dufferin" c.d.s. (Type D6), showing "T" in circle and "½d/f.b./c." h.s.; 1899 (8 Aug.) ½a. stationery envelope to Rangoon and re-addressed to Bhamo, cancelled by light "fort dufferin/mandalay" c.d.s. (Type D3) and showing, on reverse, "rangoon/2nd dely", "rangoon/dep" (Type DP9; earliest recorded date) and "bhamo/1st dely" (Type DY2; the only recorded example) datestamps; and 1905 ¼a. stationery card from India to Mandalay and re-addressed to London, showing Fort Dufferin arrival c.d.s. and showing Mandalay framed "reexpedie" h.s. (Type I11; the only recorded example

provenance:
"Stoltz", September 2014

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£280

Starting price
£280