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Auction: 21010 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale - Conducted behind closed doors
Lot: 4012

South African Maritime Mail from 1677
The "Joachim" Collection
The Second British Occupation
Cape of Good Hope Packet Letter Handstamp
1818 (24 Jan.) entire letter ex the Huth correspondence from Pallas & Polemany (forwarding agents) Cape Town "p Richmond" to London, triple rated "10/6" and "2/-" and showing a fine strike of the very rare "cape of good hope/packet letter" oval datestamp, arrival datestamp (23.4) datestamp on reverse; rare and very fine. Only some fifteen examples of this handstamp recorded

provenance:
"Lady Hope", November 2003

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Estimate
£1,500 to £1,800

Starting price
£1200