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Auction: 3022 - The Baron Stig Leuhusen Collection of Stamps & Postal History of Bermuda
Lot: 31

†General Post Stamps "paid/at/ireland isle, bermuda" Crowned Circle — P2 1860 (26 Mar.) pink envelope (complete with Offcer's letter headed "Somers Isles") ex the Oldfield correspondence to London, showing a superb strike at lower left and with h.s. "6d" above and, on reverse, an equally superb strike of the PM5 c.d.s. and two London arrival c.d.s.; the contents refer to life in the islands and visits to the theatre. Rare and most attractive. S.G. CC2, £7,000. Photo Estimate £ 3,500-4,000 provenance: Claude Cartier, 1977

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