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Auction: 5008 - Fine Stamps & Covers of South East Asia
Lot: 77

STRAITS SETTLEMENTS India used in Straits Settlements 1855-65 Typographed Issues Singapore 1859 (Jan.) entire letter to Madrid, bearing 1a. brown (faults), 2a. yellow-buff, 4a. black and 8a. carmine on blue glazed, each cancelled "B/172", showing red crayon "1/10", Gibraltar transit c.d.s. (1.3) in blue, "4R" h.s. (additionally tying the 1a.) and, on reverse, "singapore/p.o." c.d.s. in red, San Roque Cadiz (2.3) and arrival (7.3) datestamps. A rare and most attractive four colour franking illustrating the 15a. rate effective 24 July 1858. Photo Estimate S$ 1,500-1,800provenance: Spink Singapore, June 2000

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SG$1,200