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Auction: 6016 - Stamps & Covers of the World/The D J Norris Collection of Ceylon
Lot: 647

x Burma The Indian Post Office Period 1872 (26 Jan.) "Via Brindisi" to Bristol, bearing 1a. brown strip of four and two vertical pairs with several firm´s cachets in blue, framed 18-line diamond of bars and cancelled "B/1" in blue in transit, the reverse with a good strike of the Mandalay c.d.s. in red partially overcancelled by arrival c.d.s.; the envelope with a few small faults though very rare, being one of only about six recorded covers with this cancellation and one of only two covers recorded in England. Photo Estimate £ 600-800

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