Lot 335
Used to India: 1881 (12 Nov.) single rate Registered cover from King Williamstown to Bombay, India bearing 1864-77 1s green ("G" overprint, type 1a) and 1871-76 1d rose-red vertical Pair, making up the 4d registration fee plus 10d postage, all tied by barred oval "4" handstamps, is endorsed "Via England Registered" and bears KING WILLIAMS TOWN NO 12 81 c.d.s., unrecorded boxed REGISTERED handstamp, faint unclear Cape Town transit and red oval London Registered transit datestamp of 13 December 1881, backstamped SEA POST OFFICE DEC 29 c.d.s. and docketed as received on 5 January 1882 in ms., very colorful and scarce., ex Dillaway (SG GW 9, Cape 29).
Estimate $300 - 400
Of the unrecorded boxed REGISTERED handstamp, two examples were known to Dr Dillaway, the other being an 1877 letter to the USA.
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