cover 5c blue, 12½c black (10,13a), tied by oval grids to Jul. 1861 cover from Sydney, C.B. (Cape Breton) via Halifax, London and Paris to Poligny, France; the 12c has minor faults, the cover with very minor soiling, otherwise fine; rare, the 17c rate to France overpaid by ½c, unusual is not being from the Butterfield correspondence, ex Argenti (but not in his sale), Carr | Christie's

Lot 292

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cover 5c blue, 12½c black (10,13a), tied by oval grids to Jul. 1861 cover from Sydney, C.B. (Cape Breton) via Halifax, London and Paris to Poligny, France; the 12c has minor faults, the cover with very minor soiling, otherwise fine; rare, the 17c rate to France overpaid by ½c, unusual is not being from the Butterfield correspondence, ex Argenti (but not in his sale), Carr

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cover 5c blue, 12½c black (10,13a), tied by oval grids to Jul. 1861 cover from Sydney, C.B. (Cape Breton) via Halifax, London and Paris to Poligny, France; the 12c has minor faults, the cover with very minor soiling, otherwise fine; rare, the 17c rate to France overpaid by ½c, unusual is not being from the Butterfield correspondence, ex Argenti (but not in his sale), Carr