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Auction: 5026 - The Edward Gilbert Collection of Important British Empire
Lot: 879

xMauritius 1859 (Nov.) Lapirot 2d. Blue Retouched Impressions 2d. blue horizontal pair, [9-10], [10] with spelling error "mauritus", clear to good margins and each neatly cancelled "paid" in circle, affixed on 1859 (9 Nov.) entire (some creases clear of the pair) from Thomas La Chambre & Co. "via Suez and Marseille" to Porrieux, France, showing "8" (decimes) rate handstamps and "pays etr. v. suez/amb." c.d.s. in red on face and, on reverse, "g.p.o./mauritius" double-ring d.s. and six French transit c.d.s. B.P.A. Certificate (1994). Sc. 14A var.; S.G. 39a, 39ac, £100,000. Photo Estimate £ 50,000-70,000

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