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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: 56

Straits Settlements
Early Letters and Handstamps
Singapore
1854 entire to London showing handstruck "Overland via Southampton" at top left, rated "1/-" and showing, on reverse, a very fine strike of the rare framed "singapore/Bearing" without dividing lines and red arrival c.d.s. (5.12). Photo

provenance:
Charles Taylor, May 1981
J.A. Naylor, April 1983
Tay Peng Hian, November 1986
Christie's Singapore auction, March 1994
V.T. Nathan, April 2009

Sold for
SG$5,000