Lot 255
Cape of Good Hope, USED TO INDIA: 1855 "Triangular", Perkins Bacon printing, 4d deep blue on white paper, SQUARE PAIR, good to enormous margins all around to just touching left bottom, horizontal filing crease, tied by delicate CGH triangular grids to neat envelope bearing red embossed "from CAPE OF GOOD HOPE" embossed ribbon, on reverse CALEDON 22 SP 1858 (oval) origin red CAPETOWN transit and boxed CALCUTTA SHIP LETTER.
SG 6. (Scott 4b).
Est. Cash Val. $1,000 - 1,500
4d paid the rate to the ship and 4d paid the ship note to India, just eleven covers are known to exist to India, less than half the number known to Canada.
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