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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: 90

Straits Settlements
India used in Straits Settlements
1855-65 De La Rue Issues
Singapore
Mail to Germany
1857 (8 June) entire to Hamburg, marked "Via Marseilles (deleted) Trieste", bearing 4a. black on blued paper pair clearly cancelled "B/172", showing boxed "6¼" and manuscript "8½" in blue with, on reverse across join, fine "singapore/p.o." double-ring d.s. in red and arrival datestamp (14.7). (ID). Photo

provenance:
Nestor Nunez, 1988
Spink Singapore auction, June 2000

Sold for
SG$3,000