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Auction: 7028 - British Empire Stamps & Covers
Lot: 1112

Bermuda 1875 One Penny Provisionals Cover 1875 (26 May) envelope with crest of H.M.S. Bellerophon" on flap addressed to "H.A. Moncrieff Esq., 3 Waterlow Place, Pall Mall, London SW", marked "Via New York", bearing "One/Penny." on 2d. dull blue, "One/Penny." on 3d. yellow-buff (4 including a pair - straight-edge at right), "One/Penny." on 1/- green, together with 1865 1d. rose-red, all lightly cancelled with "3" in oval of horizontal bars and showing "bermuda/i/paid" c.d.s. at lower left corner with portions of the date altered in manuscript and, on reverse, London arrival c.d.s. for 21 June; the stamps and cover with a few light age marks, nevertheless a remarkable and colourful franking, and the only cover known bearing all three values of this issue. An exhibition item of the highest calibre. Photo Estimate £ 40,000-50,000 provenance: J.C. Sidebottom Sir Archibald Alison Sir Henry Tucker, October 1978 Baron Stig Leuhusen, October 2003

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