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Auction: 25014 - British Solomon Islands - The Simon Greenwood Collection
Lot: 246

British Solomon Islands
Maritime Mail
Paquebots
1934 envelope to Sydney bearing 1924 1½d. tied by Brisbane c.d.s. and showing circular-framed "loose/ship/letter"; 1936 (29 July) envelope to Sydney bearing 1924 1½d. (surface scrape at right) tied by Brisbane "paquebot" machine d.s.; 1937 envelope to Sydney bearing Coronation 1½d. tied by Brisbane "paquebot" machine d.s.; 1938 (8 July) envelope (creases) to Sydney, bearing New Guinea 2d. tied by large straight-line "paquebot" h.s. in violet with Tulagi c.d.s. alongside; 1941 (16 May) Baldwin envelope to Sydney, bearing 1938 ½d. and 1½d. tied by Suva c.d.s. and showing framed "paquebot" h.s.; 1942 (28 Mar.) Hambly envelope to Sydney, bearing 1938 ½d. and 1½d. tied by "nouvelles hebrides/santo" double-ring d.s. and showing censor label at left; 1959 (Oct.) envelope to Honiara, franked at 3d. with Brisbane c.d.s. and showing framed "paquebot" h.s.; and 1961 envelope to Texas, franked at 5d., showing framed "forest office/vanikoro/solomon islands/date...." in violet and "paquebot" h.s.

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