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Auction: 7003 - Mauritius and St. Vincent Part II - The Peter Jaffe Collection
Lot: 165

x Mauritius Other Covers and Cancellations Military Mail 1860 (7 July) soldier´s envelope "From Pte Thomas Yandy 2nd. Battln, 24th. Regt No 9 Compy" to England, signed by the Commanding Officer and bearing 1860-63 1d. purple-brown, placed sideways and affixed slight over edge at right, cancelled with target and showing, on reverse, G.P.O. despatch c.d.s. and arrival c.d.s. (10.8); the envelope a fraction soiled, otherwise sound. Rare. Photo Estimate £ 800-1,000provenance: Robson Lowe auction (Mauritius and Seychelles), November 1976

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