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Auction: 25011 - The David Spivack Collection of Queen Victoria Overprinted for use in the Bechuanalands
Lot: 318

(x) Bechuanaland Protectorate
Covers and Cancellations
Gubulawayo
1888 (10 Nov.) envelope to Cape Town (large portion of reverse missing) bearing 1888 "Protectorate" 6d. tied by "678" barred oval with a fine strike of "gubulawayo" c.d.s. (Proud D1 state 2) with Mafeking transit (4.12) alongside with part Rosebank arrival on the reverse; some soiling but the earliest recorded date of use of the amended c.d.s. with "bechuanaland" removed from the bottom of the postmark. An extremely important cover. Photo

For an earlier, manuscript cancellation, see lot 217

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Sold for
£1,200