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Auction: 22013 - Stamps and Covers of Great Britain
Lot: 1677

Great Britain Stamps Used in Jamaica
United States of America
1859 (7 Feb.) 1/- double packet letter entire to New York, bearing 4d. rose-carmine strip of three sharing manuscript "P.O. Lucea" and twice cancelled and tied by "A01", circular-framed "steamship/10" below the adhesives, light Kingston K8 datestamp (26.2) at left, Kingston (26.2) and St. Thomas datestamp on reverse. One of only four manuscript P.O. Lucea covers listed in the BWISC Encyclopaedia and the sole example known addressed overseas

provenance:
L.C.C. Nicholson, February 1940

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Sold for
£2,000

Starting price
£1800