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Auction: 18039 - Fine Stamps and Covers of South East Asia, Including The Dr. Cheah Jin Seng Collections of Straits Settlements and Kedah, and The Iain Dyce collection of Straits Settlements
Lot: 5

Straits Settlements
Early Letters and Handstamps
Penang
1817 (8 Aug.) entire letter from Malacca to London, rated "8", showing light but legible strike of oval "p.o./p.w.i." handstamp in red partly overstruck by "india ship letter/g.p.o./london" double-ring d.s. (8.5.18), both crossed by light horizontal filing crease. Very rare, one of four recorded examples of which three are struck in red. (CJS). Photo

provenance:
Nestor Nunez, December 1988
V.T. Nathan, April 2009

Sold for
SG$3,500