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Auction: 21133 - The 'Greca' Collection e-Auction
Lot: 599

Cape of Good Hope
Incoming Mail
1865 (25 Aug.) Consignee entire letter from Port Elizabeth to Edinburgh, marked inside "p Str Kaffraria", and put in the post in London and franked with a 1d.; 1879 (25 Feb.) envelope from London to Port Elizabeth, bearing 6d. Pl. 16 and showing unframed "advertised/and/unclaimed" h.s.; 1879 (8 Oct.) envelope from London to Cape Town bearing 1d. (6); 1882 (23 Feb.) envelope from Birmingham to Cape Town, marked "Via Brindisi" and bearing 6d. Pl. 17 with perfins; and 1883 (7 Feb.) envelope from Swindon to Cape Town and redirected to King Williams Town, franked at 6d., showing handstruck "3d" deleted with "1" obliterator and overstruck by "audit office/original/cape of good hope" oval d.s. in red and additionally showing handstruck "1/-s"

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£210

Starting price
£200