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Auction: 21010 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale - Conducted behind closed doors
Lot: 4048

South African Maritime Mail from 1677
The "Joachim" Collection
The Diamond Steam Navigation Line
1866 (5 Jan.) mourning envelope ex the Maclear correspondence "By Private Ship" from Aylesbury to the Royal Observatory, Cape Town bearing 2d. Plate 9 and carried by the Uitenhage from Falmouth, showing "2d" accountancy handstamp in red and with Cape Town arrival datestamp (19.3) at foot, London datestamps on reverse. This voyage was a race between the Uitenhage and the Union's Saxon, easily won by the latter in March 1865. Sailings became infrequent thereafter and ceased in December 1866

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