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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: 25

Straits Settlements
Early Letters and Handstamps
Penang
1844 (16 July) entire from Bangalore to Penang via Madras showing, on reverse, despatch, transit and framed "penang/ship letter/Bearing" datestamps, the last in black and struck over framed "g.p.o." d.s. in red. (ID). Photo

provenance:
Charles Taylor, May 1981
Tay Peng Hian, November 1986
Christie's Singapore auction, March 1994

Sold for
SG$800