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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: 1060

(x) Australian Colonies
South Australia
Covers and Cancellations
Mail to United Kingdom
1856 (20 Aug.) envelope to Edinburgh, marked "Per Jane Pirie via Callao", bearing 1855 6d. dark blue strip of four (touched or just into in places and one with light corner crease) with each cancelled by dumb obliterator, showing "paid/adelaide/s.a" c.d.s. alongside with manuscript <"1/-" in red and "2/-" on face; the envelope a little soiled and creased along top and a repaired tear at right. A fine example of mail to the UK via the Panama canal which was completed 27 January 1855. Photo

provenance:
Trevor Davis, May 2003

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

Sold for
£8,000

Starting price
£480