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GB 1870 SG94,117 Cover to Japan
$519.00
SKU: P212019988
1870 Overseas mail. Fine cover from London to Yokohama, Japan prepaid at the 1s4d per ¬Ωoz rate for mail routed via Marseille by a 1s green Pl.4 and 4d vermilion Pl.12 tied by London EC '74' duplexes for AU.26.1870. Hong Kong and Yokohama cds's on reverse for OC.3+13.1870 respectively. Heavy horizontal archive fold nevertheless a very presentable and scarce destination item, carried by P&O steamers: 'Poonah' (Marseilles - Alexandria), 'Mootan' (Suez - Galle), 'Emeu' (Galle - Hong Kong) and 'Sunda' (Hong Kong - Yokohama). - P212019988