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Auction: 22026 - Stamps and Covers of Asia featuring the Peter Cockburn FRPSL Collection of Malaya B.M.A.
Lot: 387

(x) Straits Settlements
India used in Straits Settlements
Covers
1859 (3 Sept.) entire from Singapore to India, bearing 1855 4a. black on blued paper bisected diagonally tied by unclear obliterator and showing, on reverse, "singapore/p.o." double-ring d.s., Madras (24.9) and arrival datestamps. Extremely rare, one of four known 4a. bisect covers to India of which only two are on blued paper. B.P.A. Certificate (2009). S.G. Z68a. Photo

provenance:
Sapphire Holding, October 2010

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Sold for
£20,000

Starting price
£12000