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Auction: SW1009A - The Collector's Series
Lot: 3

1891, Feb. 19. Cover to London franked at the, recently introduced, 2 1/2d. rate, by 1885-87 1d.  brownish claret, upper right diagonal half and horizontal pair, tied by fine strikes of "F.I." barred steel obliterator (Barnes Ob. 1/78), and dispatch c.d.s. at base, backstamped on arrival. The SS "Pentaur" of the Kosmos Line sailed from Port Stanley on 26.2.1891 and connected with the SS "Liguria" of the PSNC at Punta Arenas (Chile), arriving in London on 12.4. One of the finest bisect covers known, further enhanced by the "F.I." obliterator, which was used on only two mailings during the bisect period. Cert. BPA. S.G. 8, 8a.

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