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Auction: 21010 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale - Conducted behind closed doors
Lot: 4058

South African Maritime Mail from 1677
The "Joachim" Collection
Wreck of the Union Steamship Company S.S. "Mexican"
1900 (26 Mar.) postcard (Bloemfontein Parliament House) from Bloemfontein to Berlin and bearing 3d. blue tied by despatch datestamp and a fine strike of the "Aus der mit dem/uniergegangenen Dampfer/*Mexican*/beforderter Post aus Capstadt/Bahnpostamt No15" Type 1 cachet, the cachet over-cancelled by despatch and Cape Town (30.3) datestamps and with light arrival datestamp (30.4) at left; some creasing at foot. O.R.C. mail connected with this wreck rarely encountered

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Sold for
£210

Starting price
£180