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Auction: 21010 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale - Conducted behind closed doors
Lot: 4065

South African Maritime Mail from 1677
The "Joachim" Collection
The Boer War
1900 (29 Jan.) envelope from Woodstock Station, Cape Town "via Delagoa Bay" Portuguese East Africa to Pretoria, bearing 1d. carmine (3) twice neatly cancelled and showing framed "mail service suspended" cachet in violet applied in Cape Town and with light Returned Letter Office Cape Town datestamp on reverse. An interesting and unusual cover

Note: The Union Line's R.M.S. "Briton" would reach Cape Town on 30 January, bound for Delagoa Bay from where the mail would be conveyed to Pretoria by rail. This was now impossible due to hostilities and therefore the letter was returned to Cape Town

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Sold for
£130

Starting price
£70