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Auction: 22022 - The Graham Booth Collection of West Indies, Transatlantic Mail and British Ship Letters
Lot: 1099

Barbados
Britannia Issue Covers
Antigua
1878 (29 Dec.) envelope from Bishop's Court to the Lord Bishop of Antigua at St. John's, bearing 1876-81 perf. 14 6d. chrome-yellow cancelled with "bootheel" duplex, showing red crayon "4" with arrival datestamp (3.1) on reverse. A rare franking with only two covers (this being the earlier) recorded bearing this 6d. value to this destination. S.G. 79. Photo

provenance:
Jack Challis, June 2000
Fitz Roett

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