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Auction: 4016 - Cape of Good Hope Triangular Issues: The Dr. James Foght Collection
Lot: 616

CAPE OF GOOD HOPE 1861 "Woodblock" Issue Due to the nature of the paper used for these issues many examples show irregularities, both in the form of surface pitting and in the form of pre-printing paper creases. Our descriptions usually exclude the above, any defects mentioned being those which occurred after the stamps were delivered Four Pence Pale Bright Blue Single Type IA, good to enormous roughly severed margins and clearly tied on 1861 (26 Mar.) entire from Port Elizabeth to Grahams Town with despatch oval d.s. in red on reverse. Photo Estimate £ 1,500-1,700 provenance: Alan Stevens, 1959 Sir Maxwell Joseph, 1982 Ad Indhusophon, 1999

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