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Auction: 21010 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale - Conducted behind closed doors
Lot: 4041

South African Maritime Mail from 1677
The "Joachim" Collection

The Union Steamship Company
1876 (13 Sept.) envelope (small faults) from Barkly, Griqualand West to Edinburgh, bearing 6d. lilac neatly cancelled by double-arc datestamp and showing, on reverse, "cape-packet/plymouth" and arrival datestamps, and 1887 (28 Oct.) envelope from Cape Town "per S.S. Mexican" to London, bearing 6d. and 1/- green (3, two defective through opening) cancelled with squared-circle datestamps, arrival datestamp on reverse

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Sold for
£420

Starting price
£110