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Auction: 15022 - Northern Rhodesia, The Award-Winning Collection formed by Neville Polakow, FRPSL, RDPSA
Lot: 47

(x) Northern Rhodesia
1938-52 Definitive Issue
The "Tick Bird" Flaw, Covers
1940 (4 May) envelope from Broken Hill to Rhodesian Railways at Beira, Portuguese East Africa and with censor label at left, bearing 1½d. carmine-red with clear double-ring datestamp, upon arrival redirected to Johannesburg and franked with 40c. and 60c. pair cancelled by 11 May hexagonal datestamps, the reverse with Beira arrival c.d.s. (10.5). A great rarity on cover with only three examples believed recorded. Photo

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£3,500