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Auction: 23026 - Stamps and Covers of the World
Lot: 1513

(x) Northern Rhodesia
1941 (22 Feb.) envelope from Kitwe to a member of the 1st. Rhodesian Regiment at Nairobi, bearing 1938-52 1½d. carmine-red horizontal pair, the left-hand stamp showing tick bird flaw and 1d. chocolate, all neatly cancelled by machine datestamp; the normal in the pair with a little foxing, otherwise fine. A great rarity on cover with only three examples believed recorded. S.G. 29b. Photo

provenance:
Nevillle Polakow, April 2015

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

Sold for
£2,100

Starting price
£1600