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Auction: 17015 - The Philatelic Collector's Series Sale featuring The "Foxley" Collection of Barbados
Lot: 2319

(x) Cayman Islands
Covers and Cancellations
Type numbers in this section are taken from "The Postal History of the Cayman Islands" by Giraldi and McCann
Cayman Brac - Type 2
1908 (9 May) OHMS envelope (226x102mm.) registered to New York, bearing 1905 1d. (2) and 2½d. tied by barely legible "cayman brac/cayman islands" double-ring d.s., showing "R" in oval, Jamaica Registered transit d.s. (16.5) with, on reverse, Boston and arrival datestamps; the envelope with small piece missing from reverse, nevertheless a scarce and attractive commercial franking. Photo

provenance:
Edgar Marston, March 1992

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Sold for
£210