Lot 30131 – 1859 Post Paid 1d red on bluish, horizontal pair in combination with 1859-61 Britannia 6d blue on cover to Australia

Stamp of Mauritius » 1848-59 Post Paid Issue » Latest Impressions (SG 23-25) 1859 Post Paid 1d red on bluish, horizontal pair in combination with 1859-61 Britannia 6d blue on cover to Australia
Stamp of Mauritius » 1848-59 Post Paid Issue » Latest Impressions (SG 23-25) 1859 Post Paid 1d red on bluish, horizontal pair in combination with 1859-61 Britannia 6d blue on cover to Australia
Stamp of Mauritius » 1848-59 Post Paid Issue » Latest Impressions (SG 23-25) 1859 Post Paid 1d red on bluish, horizontal pair in combination with 1859-61 Britannia 6d blue on cover to Australia
Stamp of Mauritius » 1848-59 Post Paid Issue » Latest Impressions (SG 23-25) 1859 Post Paid 1d red on bluish, horizontal pair in combination with 1859-61 Britannia 6d blue on cover to Australia

Lot 30131 – 1859 Post Paid 1d red on bluish, horizontal pair in combination with 1859-61 Britannia 6d blue on cover to Australia

Mauritius » 1848-59 Post Paid Issue » Latest Impressions (SG 23-25)
Prix réalisé
4’000 GBP
Estimation
3’000 – 5’000 GBP
Date de vente
Wed 28 Oct 2020 at 17:00 (Europe/Zurich)
Description

1859 Post Paid 1d. red on bluish, horizontal pair, positions 4-5, in combination with 1859-61 Britannia 6d. blue, both very slightly cut into at left, with three large margins on other sides, on 12.11.1859 folded cover from Port Louis to Melbourne, tied by oval bar cancels with dispatch ‘G.P.O./MAURITIUS’ and arrival cds’s on back, charged with 4d in red crayon on obverse for Colonial credit, filing fold and tiny scissor cut on the 6d on no significance for this, the only example recorded of this franking

Provenance: Lagerloef, Wren, Vikram Chand

Expertise: Herman Toaspern rubber dealer’s stamp on back, cert. BPA (1993), Brandon (2007)

Catalogue ref: SG 23, 32

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