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Auction: 21010 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale - Conducted behind closed doors
Lot: 4138

South African Maritime Mail from 1677
The "Joachim" Collection
Weather Stations
Marion Island
1948 (Jan.)-83 collection of covers (29) with a range of values and cancellations/cachets, including 1948 (8) with boxed "marion island/south indian ocean" cachet, 1948 from England to the Meteorological Station on the island, carried by H.M.S.A.S. Bloemfontein and marked "To be kept in a special box at the G.P.O. C. Town", 1949 (2) with Department of Transport Marion Island bi-lingual oval datestamp, 1952 from Yorkshire to Marion, endorsed "Returned for better direction", then marked "Ceylon" (deleted) and "Try via Canada", and returned to the Dead Letter Office at Montreal, 1954 OHMS and charged 2d. Postage Due (deleted), 1958 to Tristan da Cunha with 1d. Postage Due and 1958 registered at 8d.; also 1951-80 covers from Prince Edward Island(2), Queen Maud Land (5) and two others. An interesting lot

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£180