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Auction: 25016 - Stamps and Covers of Asia
Lot: 1317

(x) Malaya
Straits Settlements
India used in Singapore
1855 (10 July) entire letter to "Capt. John Murray, Grenadier Guards, British Expedition, Crimea", marked "Via Alexandria", bearing 1854 4a. blue and red 4th printing pair with clear to good margins, cancelled by diamond of hollow dots and showing, on reverse, Alexandria double-arc d.s. (21.8) in blue. One of three recorded covers from the Murray correspondence to the Crimea of which one bears a strip of four 2a., and the other two 4a. Association of Singapore Philatelists Certificate (2006). Photo

provenance:
L.E. Dawson, 1966
Admiral George C. Dyer, 1984
W.H. Lu, 1985
David Springbett, 1994

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

Estimate
£10,000 to £12,000

Starting price
£8000