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Auction: 22026 - Stamps and Covers of Asia featuring the Peter Cockburn FRPSL Collection of Malaya B.M.A.
Lot: 200

India
Early Letters and Handstamps
1840 (11 Sept.) front and part back to Liverpool showing a fine strike of the framed "too late" (HG X19) with framed "india" alongside and Calcutta Steam Letter d.s. on reverse, all struck in red. The earliest known usage of a Too Late h.s. anywhere in India

provenance:
Derek Hammond Giles, October 2000

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£450

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