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Auction: 8029 - Soldiers' Rates of the BE - Gerald Sattin Collection
Lot: 252

India 1894 (24 Jan.) Soldier´s and Seamen´s 9p. envelope from Private Hackett of "B" Company at Dum Dum to a sergeant in the Army Pay Corps at Malta, countersigned by the Commanding Officer and neatly cancelled with squared-circle d.s., and 1898 (22 June) 1a. on 9p. Soldier´s and Seamen´s envelope from Quartermaster Sergeant Mills in the 2nd. Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment at Fyzabad to a member of the O.S. Corps in Malta, countersigned by the Commanding Officer and cancelled with "bridge" type c.d.s., both with Malta c.d.s. and the latter also showing Cospicua c.d.s.; an most unusual pair Estimate £ 150-200

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