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Auction: 4016 - Cape of Good Hope Triangular Issues: The Dr. James Foght Collection
Lot: 569

Cape of Good Hope 1858 (20 Aug.) envelope from Cape Town "via Mail Steamer ´Athens´" to Holland, bearing 1d. rose-red and 1/- bright yellow-green, both with clear or good to large margins, in combination with blued paper 1d. brick-red with large margins nearly all round (touched in one corner), neatly cancelled and tied and showing London Paid c.d.s. in red on face, the reverse with Cape Town c.d.s. in red, "devonport/packet-letter" c.d.s. in blue and arrival c.d.s. A rare and attractive mixed-issue franking. B.P.A. Certificate (2004). Photo Estimate £ 2,000-2,500

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