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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: 1219

(x) Bechuanaland
Covers and Cancellations
Bechuanaland Protectorate
1908 (28 May) Victoria Falls Hotel printed envelope, a much travelled cover which has been re-directed no less than four times beginning its journey in Francistown, Bechuanaland bearing Bechuanaland Protectorate ½d. and 2d.. arriving at Kopje, Salisbury where an arrival strike was struck on 30th May, here the cover received a Rhodesia Arms 1d. as a re-direction fee and sent on to Johannesburg where it arrived on 17th June and an Orange River Colony 1d. affixed as a redirection fee, it was then sent on to Wynberg, Cape and Cape 1d. affixed on 22nd July; from here the cover was sent to Staines, England and GB 1d. pair applied presumably as a re-direction fee; The cover took three months to reach the addressee for whom it was originally intended

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Sold for
£500

Starting price
£240