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Auction: 21010 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale - Conducted behind closed doors
Lot: 4053

South African Maritime Mail from 1677
The "Joachim" Collection
The Cape and Natal Steam Navigation Company
1871 (20 Oct.) envelope from Port Elizabeth "per S.S. Sprite" to London, bearing 4d. blue cancelled "2" and with despatch and arrival datestamps, "2d" accountancy handstamp in red and "paid/london ship letter" datestamp (1.12) at foot, and 1882 (17 May) brown envelope from Cape Town to France, bearing ½d., 1d. and 6d. with squared-circle datestamps and showing "ship-letter/paid/london" datestamp (9.6) and light French datestamp, all on face, the reverse with superb "plymouth/ship-letter"

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Sold for
£210

Starting price
£110