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Auction: 18009 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series
Lot: 1164

Gambia
1845 (25 Aug.) entire letter ex the Robson correspondence p. Cony to Cornwall, showing Bathurst Gambia at lower left, manuscript "8" rate marking and fine "portsmouth/ship letter" (Robertson S.16), interesting contents regarding the writers duties as Quarantine Officer and the necessity of being strict in the execution of his duty with vessels coming from Sierra Leone and the Leeward Coast. Photo

provenance:
John Rose, May, 2011

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Sold for
£700