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Lot# 4383 - Auction 265-273

  • Lot# : 4383 Great Britain

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    Mail Boat Obliterations / Mediterranean Packets 1857: Great Britain 1 d. red stars, perf. 14, six examples including a vertical pair used on 1861 small mourning envelope to London (Jekyll correspondence) tied by four fine strikes of the horizontal Mailboat "B16" obliterator ("Handed to Mr. Douglas for service on board the 'China' Mediterranean Packet") with London arrival cds (May 10) in red on reverse. Very fine and extremely rare - unrecorded in Stanley Gibbons.rnProvenance: Collection E.E. Yates, RL, London, 31 July-1 Aug 1940; Collection 'Victoriana', Spink, London, 4 Oct 2007, lot 2391.
    Starting bid : 750.00 CHF
    Hammer price : 1,700.00 CHF