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Auction: 21010 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale - Conducted behind closed doors
Lot: 4060

South African Maritime Mail from 1677
The "Joachim" Collection
Wreck of the Union Steamship Company S.S. "Mexican"
1900 (27 Mar.) envelope from Herbert W. Thelwell of "Lumsden's Horse On Active Service No Stamps available" to England, despite the notation bearing 1d. carmine neatly cancelled with East London squared-circle datestamp and most unusually showing, on reverse, a fine strike of the "recovered from/wreck of the mexican" in red alongside Berkhamstead arrival datestamp (28.4)

Note: "Lumsden's Horse" was an Indian Contingent Volunteer Unit of 292 men which arrived in two sections in South Africa. The "B Section" of 100 commanded by Major Showers disembarked from the S.S. "Ujina" at East London on 27 March. They left by rail for Bloemfontein, via Bethulie, the next day and returned to India on 5 December 1900

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Estimate
£250 to £300

Starting price
£180