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Auction: 8029 - Soldiers' Rates of the BE - Gerald Sattin Collection
Lot: 255

India 1896 (4 Apr.) Soldier´s and Seamen´s 1a. on 9p. envelope from Gunner Broomhead with No. 3 Company Eastern Division Royal Artillery at Colaba to a Surgeon Major at Abazzia, Austria and redirected to Vienna, countersigned by the Commanding Officer and cancelled with squared-circle d.s., the cover not permissible for a concessionary rate of postage to Austria and showing various rate markings, circular-framed "T" and bearing Austria Postage Due 1k. (2) and 5k. (2) cancelled with Abbazia datestamps (20.4), Sea Post Office (4.4) and Vienna (25.4) c.d.s. on reverse; attractive and unusual Estimate £ 120-150

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