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Auction: 11033 - Autumn Collector's Series Sale
Lot: 1580

x Cape of Good Hope 1863-64 De La Rue 1/- bright emerald-green with good to large margins, neatly cancelled and tied on 1863 (24 Oct.) envelope from Aliwal to London showing, on reverse, despatch, Cape Town (25.10) and London (22.12) d.s.; the envelope a little soiled though probably one of the finest of these stamps known on cover. S.G. 21. Photo Estimate £ 4,500-5,000 provenance: Sir Maxwell Joseph, October 1982

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