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Auction: 21010 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale - Conducted behind closed doors
Lot: 4056

South African Maritime Mail from 1677
The "Joachim" Collection
Royal Mail Steamers
1896 (Sept.-Nov.) series of seven envelopes drawn by the artist W. Short and ex the Spencer correspondence from Cape Town to England, each with colour wash, pen and ink illustration showing a range of vessels from company fleet vessels comprising Dunvegan Castle, Mexican, Norman, Norman Castle, Roslin Castle, Scot and Tantallon, each bearing 2½d. blue cancelled with squared-circle datestamp. A wonderful and colourful group, the Mexican being the most interesting, wrecked on 5 April 1900 off Dassen Island and with no picture postcard of the vessel being known

provenance:
Neville Clifford Jones , 2011

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Sold for
£1,900

Starting price
£1200