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Auction: 21010 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale - Conducted behind closed doors
Lot: 4068A

South African Maritime Mail from 1677
The "Joachim" Collection
World War I
1915 (5 Apr.) troopship Galway Castle unfranked picture postcard from the South West African campaign written from Walfish Bay to Kroonstad, O.F.S., showing mute "5" datestamp and bi-lingual "passed by censor" cachet in blue, 1916 (24 Feb.) and 1918 (11 Feb.) "On Active Service" Union Castle Line envelopes to England, requisitioned as hospital ships, the first with "Hospital Ship 'Goorkkha.'" cachet and Base Army Post Office Z datestamp, the second from Col. Dundee on board H.M.H.S. Gascon" with light ships cachet, Cape Town datestamp and censor cachet. An interesting trio

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£110