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Auction: 22025 - Stamps and Covers of the World
Lot: 176

(x) Australian Colonies
Victoria
1884 (25 Sept.) envelope (210x103mm.) registered from Italian Consul in Melbourne to Rome, marked "Via Brindisi", bearing 1875 Bell 1d., 1/- (4) and 1880 Naish 2d. (2), all tied by "1" in oval of bars, showing "registered/melbourne" oval datestamp with arrival c.d.s. on reverse; the envelope slightly truncated at left and with a few, mainly peripheral, faults nevertheless a rare and most attractive franking. Photo

provenance:
Guy Linfield, October 2006

Subject to 5% tax on Hammer Price in addition to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium.

Estimate
£1,000 to £1,200