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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: 1059

(x) Australian Colonies
South Australia
Covers and Cancellations

Mail to United Kingdom
1856 (1 Aug.) envelope to Wolverhampton, marked "For England by the James Baines, via Melbourne by the Wonga Wonga", bearing 1855 6d. dark blue with close to good margins, cancelled by dumb obliterator and tied by "paid/adelaide s.a" c.d.s., showing "d3" accountancy h.s. and "paid/liverpool/ship" tombstone transit d.s.; the envelope with part of flap missing. Photo

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

Sold for
£320

Starting price
£180