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Auction: 3015 - India & States, Ceylon and Borneo
Lot: 340

Madras: 1816 (30 May) entire letter from Chittoor to Guernsey showing a good strike of the rare intaglio "Crown/madras ship letter" c.d.s. dated "1 June" in manuscript (HG SD2), a fine strike of the framed "unpaid" (HG SD3) and over-inked strike of the very rare intaglio "chittoor/Post Office" (HG 1) and "Pt Pd" (unrecorded) despatch h.s. An important early item of Indian postal history. Photo Estimate £ 800-900

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£700