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Auction: 20037 - The Charles Freeland Collection of Three Islands: St Lucia, Nevis & St Vincent
Lot: 174

(x) St. Lucia
1864-76 Watermark Crown CC, perf. 14
Covers
1878 (1 Mar.) six times rate envelope to Paris, bearing (1/-) orange vertical pairs (2) each cancelled by messy "A11" obliterator, showing red crayon "4/2" (deleted) and "3/1½", showing London Paid transit and Calais entry datestamps, both in red, with arrival c.d.s. on reverse; the envelope with some minor peripheral creases. The only recorded example of this franking

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Sold for
£950

Starting price
£350