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Auction: 3025 - Stamps & Covers of the World & Stamp Boxes
Lot: 1014

†GREAT BRITAIN Postal History 1915 (25 Mar.) pink "Brevkort" (invoice) envelope from Seydisfjordur, Iceland to Flensborg, bearing 5a. green tied by double-ring d.s., showing a superb strike of the only known strike of "middlesbrough/ship-letter" single-ring d.s. (Hosking 154) for 6th April; the card is a little creased and has a small repaired tear at left not affecting its fine appearance. One of the most outstanding 20th Century Ship Letters. Photo Estimate £ 1,800-2,200 Note: Robertson states of Middlesborough - "No 'ship letter' handstamps are yet recorded, and their existence seems doubtful...."

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