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Auction: 11026 - The Chartwell Collection - British Empire
Lot: 70

Mauritius 1848-59 "POST PAID" Issue Latest Impressions on Yellowish, Grey or Bluish Paper of Poorish Quality 1d. red-brown on bluish paper, [5], good to large margins all round, neatly cancelled with "g p o/mauritius" double-ring datestamp for 6 December 1859 and tied on piece also showing "pays etr. v. suez/marseille" double-ring datestamp in red; the stamp a little oxidised and with a diagonal crease nevertheless of fine appearance and most unusually cancelled thus. S.G. 24, £550 Estimate £ 100-120 provenance: Maurice Burrus, October 1963

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