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Auction: 21010 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale - Conducted behind closed doors
Lot: 4045

South African Maritime Mail from 1677
The "Joachim" Collection
The Union Steamship Company
1889 (10 Apr.) envelope from Woodstock to London bearing 1d. red (4) with triangular cancellations and despatch datestamp alongside, 1890 (10 Dec.) envelope from Simons Town to Ireland bearing 4d. blue with hooded datestamp, 1895 (3 July) envelope from Alfred Docks to England bearing 2½d. cancelled "420" and with despatch datestamp at left, 1896 (29 Aug.) envelope per "Tartar" from London to Grahamstown, bearing 2½d. and additionally franked with 1d. lilac pair paying the Late Fee, all neatly cancelled, 1899 (6 Mar.) envelope from Port Elizabeth per "R.M.S. Briton" to Germany bearing 2½d. with neat datestamp, an attractive pair of south and north bound sailings, 1901 (22 Mar.) envelope (minor creasing) from Port Elizabeth "Per Tantallon Castle" to Germany franked at 2½d., Gera arrival datestamp on reverse, and 1903 (22 Apr.) picture postcard (arrival of R.M.S. 'Scot') from Cape Town to Berlin and redirected locally bearing 1d. with datestamp and showing two German datestamps,

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Sold for
£150

Starting price
£80