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Auction: 11029 - Summer Collector's Series sale
Lot: 859

x British Post Offices Abroad Chile 1880 (Aug.) envelope (printed address, addressee´s name excised and with a few light age marks) to England, bearing 1877 2c. orange strip of five in combination with G.B. 1876 1/- green Plate 13 and sharing a fine strike of the "C55/panama transit" duplex clearly tying the two and showing, on reverse, a red wax seal of Pisagua handstamped with G.B. indistinct "C" numeral obliterator Liverpool arrival c.d.s. (22.9). A rare combination. Photo Estimate £ 5,000-6,000 Note: As Pisagua was, at this time, in Chile-occupied Peru, this cover may well be a unique usage and the only combination cover bearing multiple stamps of Chile provenance: Grant Glassco, November 1969

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