Lot 20166 – DARDENNE / DE LA RUE COMBINATION COVER

DARDENNE / DE LA RUE COMBINATION

2d blue, cut in to good margins on one side, in combination with De La Rue 4d rose, both tied by black oval bars, on envelope from Port Louis to London, England, with manuscript “4” accountancy mark being credit to the British, showing ‘MAURITIUS/GPO’ bs, cleaned and soiled, unusual and an extremely rare usage, apparently unique

Rate: 4d inland letter rate

Provenance: Schindler, March 1996; Vikram Chand, neatly mounted on exhibition page

Expertise: Cert. BPA (1995)