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Auction: 24027 - Antigua - The Simon Greenwood Collection
Lot: 814

Antigua
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1870 (7 Sept.) envelope ex the "Mrs Jackson" correspondence from Sydney, marked "Via Southampton, Per R.M.S. Avoca", bearing New South Wales 6d. violet and 1/- carmine tied by duplex, showing framed "insufficiently/stamped", crayon "11", handstruck "1d" and London Paid transit c.d.s., all in red; the envelope with part flap missing. A colourful franking marked to go via Marseilles but diverted via Southampton to avoid the Brindisi 3d. surcharge due to the Franco-Prussian war. Photo

provenance:
Trevor Davis, May 2003
Alvarado, May 2010

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Sold for
£500

Starting price
£480