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Auction: 23013 - Stamps and Covers of the World: Featuring Superb Mauritius, the "Claremont" Collection of South West Africa and the Charles Freeland Collection of Virgin Islands
Lot: 1016

(x) Australian Colonies
Queensland
Covers and Cancellations
Mail to Fiji
1871 (19 Mar.) envelope (with letter headed "Pikedale") to Port Morton, Fiji care of Sydney Best in Sydney, bearing perf 13 2d. blue strip of three with indistinct cancels and showing, on reverse, Leyburn (21.3) and Brisbane (23.3) datestamps; the adhesives with some lightly stained perfs and the envelope with some tears at top in the left half clear of adhesives, nevertheless a rare destination. Photo

Note: Port Morton is a remote location in the Yasawa group of the Fiji Islands. Vincent Sandilands had gone there from Queensland to grow cotton on Nauiti. After crop failures he became the British Vice Consul at Levuka.

Subject to 5% tax on Hammer Price in addition to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium.

Sold for
£1,500

Starting price
£210