Lot 40781 – Mixed Franking Cover With Cape of Good Hope 185

Mixed Franking Cover With Cape of Good Hope 1859 (Aug 5) Envelope from Eastern Suburb with Britannia 6d blue tied by blank barred oval, addressed “Poste Restante” to Cape Town, “opened in error” and reposted to Port Louis (arrival ds for OC 8) with Cape 4d deep blue, paying the Ship Letter rate, undeliverable with “Not known” for Oct 10 and 11, ms “4” and “1d” on face, Cape 4d with minor corner crease A unique, colourful and most exotic classic combination franking for two journeys across the Indian Ocean (a similar cover from the Dale-Lichtenstein collection is from the same correspondence, dated a day earlier from Port Louis, but is franked two Lapirot 2d and Cape 4d. It was returned on the same boat and bears the same Port Louis return ds of OC 8) Provenance: Dale-Lichtenstein 1968 lot 122; Kanai 1993 lot 325; Baron von Uexkull 1997 lot 20891 Estimate: € 40’000 – € 60’000