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Auction: 21010 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale - Conducted behind closed doors
Lot: 4028

South African Maritime Mail from 1677
The "Joachim" Collection

Letters Carried By Private Ship
1855 (11 Oct.) envelope from Grahamstown to Magdalen College, Oxford, bearing 1855 white paper 4d. blue (2, cut-into to huge margins, one creased), both mainly lightly cancelled and showing handstruck "8d", the reverse with Grahamstown, Cape Town and Oxford datestamps, and step-type "ship letter/plymouth"

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Sold for
£180

Starting price
£140