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Auction: 20026 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale - conducted behind closed doors
Lot: 1087

Ceylon
Covers
1858 (4 June) envelope to Bath, marked "Via Marseilles", bearing 1857 blued paper 6d. purple-brown (just clear to good margins; small surface fault) and 1857-59 white paper 1d. blue and 2d. green (both touched in places), all cancelled by oval of bars and showing, on reverse, "galle/steamer letter" and arrival (12.7) datestamps; the envelope a fraction soiled and with tear across lower left corner. R.P.S. Certificate (2018). Photo

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Sold for
£700

Starting price
£650