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Auction: 11013 - Collector's Series Sale
Lot: 220

x Cape of Good Hope 1838 (Mar.) entire letter from "Simons Bay" to Thomas Maclear (later knighted and Astronomer Royal) at the Royal Observatory, Cape Town showing largely fine Crowned "general post office/cape of good hope" d.s. (13.3) applied on arrival; the letter contents proving that the instruments exhibited by Sir William Hershel (1738-1822, a German-born astronomer who settled in England and later became court astronomer to King George III) in Johannesburg were a "fake" taken from the Royal Observatory in Cape Town Estimate £ 120-150

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