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Auction: 20010 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale
Lot: 1097

(x) British Honduras
1865 No Watermark Issue
Covers
1869 (6 Sept.) front to Aberdeen, Mississippi, bearing 1d. pale blue truncated wing-margin strip of three and a single each cancelled "A06", additionally tied by New Orleans transit datestamps (11.9) with despatch datestamp below and circular-framed "steamship/10" handstamp at left; the adhesives with some trimmed perforations, the front rebacked and with some peripheral faults, nevertheless a rare and presentable franking of the first issue. Photo

provenance:
Maurice Burrus,
Ed Addis, March 1991
Simon Richards, October 2005

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Sold for
£2,200

Starting price
£2000