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Auction: 5006 - British Empire
Lot: 993

xOrange Free State 1900 (6 Apr.) envelope registered from Bloemfontein to London, bearing 1900 V.R.I. first printing 1/2d. to 4d., 6d. (both) and 1/- all cancelled with c.d.s. (year date omitted) and showing oval-framed "express." handstamp in violet; scarce and colourful. Believed by Batten to be the only registered and express postal item known from Bloemfontein Estimate £ 140-160 provenance: A.G.M. Batten, 1987

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