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Auction: 23024 - The Caroe Family Collections of Cameroons, Faroe Islands, Denmark and Danish West Indies
Lot: 735

(x) Danish West Indies
Transit Mail
Selection of eleven items, including Australia 1840 entire to Barbados with red "india letter/penzance" on reverse, Cuba 1854 entire letter to Paris with red forwarding agents cachet on reverse, France 1869 entire letter from Bordeaux to Trinidad, franked 80c., Great Britain 1866 entire letter to Guatemala with "per west indian mail" handstamp, Haiti 1898 and 1909 envelopes with St. Thomas transit datestamps on the reverse, Mauritius 1823 entire to London with step type "penzance/ship letter" on the reverse, Virgin Islands 1913 cover Registered to South Africa, etc., chiefly fine

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Sold for
£400

Starting price
£280

Sale 23024 Notices
The Australia 1840 entire is to London, not Barbados as described.