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Auction: 25028 - Stamps and Covers of the World
Lot: 1028

(x) Australian Colonies
New South Wales
Norfolk Island
1901 (July) envelope registered to England, bearing ½d. and 1d. Arms (5) tied by just discernible strikes of "norfolk island" c.d.s. (first type without "nsw" at foot), marked at left "Registered/168", showing "R" in oval and, on reverse, Sydney (2.8), London and arrival datestamps. Illustrated by Collas & Breckon at p25. The rate was 2½d UPU foreign letter plus 3d registration fee (the 2d concessional British Empire letter rate was not extended to Great Britain until 1.4.1905). Photo

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Estimate
£700 to £800

Starting price
£500