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Auction: 11029 - Summer Collector's Series sale
Lot: 96

St. Helena Queen Victoria Covers 1880 (7 May) mourning envelope (complete with letter written on board the steamer "Pretoria") from Lord Scott Douglas to his wife in London, rated "6" in red crayon and bearing 1876 1/- deep green cancelled with Sunburst (CNA.8), despatch c.d.s. on face, arrival c.d.s. (5.6) on reverse; light fox patch at left and part of flap missing; accompanied by 1880 (8 may) envelope (complete with letter) ex the same correspondence and posted in Cape Town, franked at 1/-, on 14 May, the contents describing his tour of St. Helena. A fascinating and unusual pair Estimate £ 350-400 Note: Lord Douglas was travelling to South Africa to superintend the Boundary Commission after the Zulu War

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£250