Lot 290
Used to England: 1874 (5 Aug.) private ship single rate cover from Port Elizabeth to London, England, bearing 1864-77 4d blue cancelled by barred oval "2" handstamp, endorsed "By Colonial Mail Steamer Windsor Castle" and bears PORT ELIZABETH AU 5 74 c.d.s., large red manuscript crayon "2," 2d credit to the Currie Line and large red LONDON E.C. PAID 5 SP 74 arrival c.d.s., with faint vertical fold, scarce., ex Dillaway (SG 24a).
Estimate $250 - 300
The "Windsor Castle" established the outward record from Dartmouth to Table Bay in 1873 but she was wrecked on 19 October 1876 on a homeward voyage when she struck a reef two miles west of Dassen Island.
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