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Auction: 26010 - Stamps and Covers of British Africa
Lot: 2233

(x) Rhodesia and Nyasaland
1957 (23 Dec.) envelope marked "air mail from Welkom to Belvedere, Salisbury franked with Zebra 2d. cancelled with machine datestamp, showing circular-framed "t/2d" handstamp alongside Mabelreign datestamp (27.12) and bearing 2d. bright green handstamped "postage due" 27½x3mm. in violet from lower left to top right and cancelled by what may be a further Mabelreign datestamp and believed not to be a Delivery Room datestamp; the reverse with a couple of tears through over-zealous opening during the Christmas period, and with some edge faults, however considered to be the sole example of the 2d. value known on cover.

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

Estimate
£2,000 to £4,000

Starting price
£1500