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Auction: 21010 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale - Conducted behind closed doors
Lot: 4040

South African Maritime Mail from 1677
The "Joachim" Collection
The Union Steamship Line
1874 (10 Mar.) envelope "pr Mail Steamer" from Grahamstown to Somerset bearing 1/- green cancelled "3" with Cape Town datestamp (16.3) alongside, Cape Packet Plymouth over-cancelled datestamp on reverse, and 1875 (25 Sept.) mourning envelope from Birmingham "Via Plymouth" to Cape Town bearing wing-margin 1/- green Plate 12 cancelled "75" with Cape Town datestamp alongside, Paid Plymouth Cape Packet datestamp (26.9) on reverse. The company moved its terminus to Southampton in April 1871. Plymouth markings were seldom used

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