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Auction: 21010 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale - Conducted behind closed doors
Lot: 4054

South African Maritime Mail from 1677
The "Joachim" Collection
1893 Coaster S.S. "Nautilus"
1893 (14 Oct.) envelope (flap missing) ex the Burmester correspondence from Springbok (recipient's note on reverse) "per Nautilus" to Cape Town, showing a fine strike of the "s.s.nautilus/cape town" double oval-framed handstamp in blue dated "14/10/93" in manuscript and bearing 1d. on 2d. neatly cancelled with arrival squared-circle datestamp for 16 October; fine and very rare, this being the middle dated of the only three recorded examples

Note: Stephan Bros. of Cape Town owned the coaster S.S. 'Nautilus' which plied the Cape Town-Port Nolloth route. Mail from Namaqualand was taken to Port Nolloth and handed to the Captain, who put it into the postal system on arrival at Cape Town. The mail received the ship's oval handstamp, the postage stamps being cancelled on arrival at Cape Town

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Sold for
£1,500

Starting price
£550