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Auction: 11029 - Summer Collector's Series sale
Lot: 868

x British Post Offices Abroad Nicaragua 1882 envelope to Paris, bearing 1878-80 rouletted 10c. vermilion and 25c. green each cancelled with boxed "3./g." and in combination with G.B. 1872 4d. vermilion Plate 13 (to pay the postage only as far as Panama) clearly cancelled "C57" at Grey Town, showing "T" handstamp alongside manuscript "32" and Panama British Post Office c.d.s. (5.1), the reverse with a fine embossed seal of the "nicaragua/secretaria de hacienda", London and Paris (28.1) c.d.s. An extremely rare and unusual combination franking. Holcombe Certificate (1987). Photo Estimate £ 15,000-18,000 provenance: Grant Glassco, November 1969

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