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Auction: 19045 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale
Lot: 548

Gibraltar
Mail to or via Gibraltar
1803 (2 Mar.) entire letter from J.M. Whinnie at Cadiz to "Captain James Guthrie, Aide de Camp & Acting Mily Secretary to General His Royal Highness Duke of Kent Governor of Gibraltar", showing fine "8q" rate h.s. alongside straight-line "cadiz" in the same red ink; the contents refer to a delay in writing due to being in quarantine for four days with a consequence of the post not leaving the Garrison, and the arrival of the Dutch Admiral De Wintter and two ships; clean and attractive. Photo

provenance:
Spink auction, April 2010

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Sold for
£75

Starting price
£110