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Auction: 21010 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale - Conducted behind closed doors
Lot: 4042

South African Maritime Mail from 1677
The "Joachim" Collection
The Union Steamship Company
1877 (20 Sept.) envelope from Grahamstown via Cape Town to Leeds, bearing 1d. red (2) and 4d. blue all cancelled "3" and additionally tied by Cape Town (23.9) datestamp, and 1878 (9 May) envelope from Keiskamahoek via King Williams Town and Cape Town to Petersfield, bearing 1d. red (6, some folded over edge) with triangular cancellations and with all three datestamps below, both showing on reverse fine strikes of the "cape-packet/plymouth" datestamp. Carried on the Cape Town-Southampton route from April 1871. Rate for all mail was 6d. per ½oz. from 1 July 1876. Mail landed at Plymouth out of course received the Cape Packet Plymouth datestamp. An unusual pair

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Sold for
£150

Starting price
£140