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Auction: 9016 - Important Stamps & Covers of the World
Lot: 104

Malta 1860 (28 Dec.) mourning envelope "Via Marseille Registered" to London, bearing G.B. 1855-57 1/- green cancelled with "A25" duplex and showing a superb strike of the exceptionally rare "malta/Crown/registered" h.s., two strikes of the London "Crown/registered" h.s. and "registered/london" oval d.s. (4.1), all in red on face. Highly attractive and almost certainly the finest of the few Crown Malta Registered covers known. Photo Estimate £ 4,000-5,000 provenance: H.A. Cann, 1970

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