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Auction: 4019 - British West Indies
Lot: 3392

ST. VINCENT 1863-68 no watermark Covers 1871 entire (one back panel missing) to Demerara, marked "p French Mail", bearing perf 11 to 121/2 4d. deep blue (2) tied by "A10" obliterator, showing faint oval-framed "pd" overstruck on even fainter despatch c.d.s., both in red; the entire with some pressed vertical folds, one of which crosses the right hand stamp. A very rare franking. S.G. 6. Photo Estimate £ 1,500-1,800 provenance: W.S. Davy, May 1960 H.D. Bessemer, June 1970 Stanley Gibbons Auctions, September 1979

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