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Auction: 21010 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale - Conducted behind closed doors
Lot: 4062

South African Maritime Mail from 1677
The "Joachim" Collection
Wreck of the Union Steamship Company S.S. "Mexican"
1900 (4 Apr.) envelope registered from Cape Town to Hamburg franked with ½d. (another stamp floated off) and showing, on reverse a fine strike of the "Aus dermit dem/uniergegangeren Dampfer/*Mexican*/beforderter Post aus Capstadt/Bahnpostamt No15" rare Type 2 cachet with "dermit" as one word and "No15" closer together, arrival datestamp (30.4) alongside. R.P.S. Certificate (2012)

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Sold for
£210

Starting price
£180