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Auction: 24017 - Stamps and Covers of British Asia
Lot: 178

(†) India
1866 (28 June) 6a. purple, a superb example free of any surface cracks etc., used with 1860 8p. purple on white on 1866 (24 Aug.) envelope to Dorking marked "Via Marseilles", both neatly tied by Bombay duplex and showing arrival datestamp (20.9) on reverse. Without doubt one of, if not, the finest examples known on cover. R.P.S. Certificate (1979). S.G. 66. Photo

provenance:
Henry Fothringham

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Sold for
£1,300

Starting price
£700