Auction: 9020 - Stamps & Covers of the World
Lot: 2297
India 1879 (26 Nov.) and 1880 (1 Apr.) Soldier´s and Seamen´s envelopes to Ireland and England respectively with both countersigned by the Commanding Officer, the first from Private Rogers of the 1/25th. King´s Own Borders at Peshawar cancelled with "L-3" duplex, the second from Sergeant Turner of the Indian Railway Volunteer Rifle Corps. at Cawnpore "via France" and uprated with 1/2a. blue (2), all cancelled with "A-9/5" T.P.O. handstamp and showing, on reverse, "t.p.o. mail agent/cawnpore" (1.4) and Nuneaton (22.4) c.d.s.; the latter a little soiled though scarce Estimate £ 180-200
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