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Auction: 21010 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale - Conducted behind closed doors
Lot: 4039

South African Maritime Mail from 1677
The "Joachim" Collection

The Union Steamship Line
1871 (8 Jan.) envelope from Bristol "via Devonport" (applied in error) to Paarl, bearing 1d. rose-red strip of six and L-shaped strips of three (2), all cancelled with "134" duplex and showing Cape Town (12.2) and arrival datestamps at centre, Cape Packet Plymouth datestamp (9.1) with inverted code "A" on reverse. A most attractive and unusual franking of the 1/- rate

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Sold for
£200

Starting price
£140