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Auction: 5011 - Stamps & Covers of the World
Lot: 1765

India 1859 (?) large part linen cloth wrapper from Jaipur showing, on reverse, a largely fine strike of the very rare "banghy dept/calcutta" c.d.s. in blue-black with only the last figure of year date readable, and several attractive brown wax seals. Also 1865 receipt for a parcel ex the same correspondence showing the scarce Banghy Dawk framed "g.p.o./b.d" handstamp in blue-black. Photo Estimate £ 1,600-1,800Note: This cover was first reported, and illustrated, in the India Post, 1982

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£1,400