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Lot# 388 - Auction 265-273

  • Lot# : 388 Great Britain

    1859/71: Lot five covers from the United Kingdom to Constantinople, two of them franked in the 1852 rate with 1 s. postage and 1 d. late fee, endorsed via Trieste or Marseilles; three covers in the 1870 6 d. rate with one despatched on July 29, 1870 only four days after the introduction of the new rate, one as double rate cover with four examples of 3 d. carmine-rose. Also one cover from Constantinople to London with oval barred 'C' obliterator on 6 d. lilac. Lot includes also a falsified envelope from Hamburg to Victoria with extremely rare Trieste rate handstamp '15 / 52' but with the franking 'renewed'.
    Starting bid : 300.00 CHF
    Hammer price : 300.00 CHF