Ended on Tuesday, 26 March 2019 at 11:30.

SOUTH AUSTRALIA "SAVED FROM THE WRECK OF THE COLOMBO." framed 2-line cachet on a cover front (these covers always damage

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Start of the sale:
Tuesday, 12 March 2019 at 11:19
Item n°732273755
Sale ends:
Tuesday, 26 March 2019 at 11:30
Lot:
#5276
Catalogue:
Sandafayre 7290
Estimated price:
between £300.00 and £350.00

SOUTH AUSTRALIA "SAVED FROM THE WRECK OF THE COLOMBO." framed 2-line cachet on a cover front (these covers always damaged) addressed to London and posted in Adelaide on 27th October 1862 with stamp washed off. The item is accompanied by a Second Roulette 1s stamp in an unusual olive- yellow colour bearing part of the Colombo wreck cachet - for years this shade was deemed to have been an issued colour however the source of this stamp was the wreck of the "Colombo" where the mail had lain submerged for 3 months and the salt water had altered the brown stamp ink to this shade! Also a separate example of the wreck cachet cut from another cover. A very unusual and informative trio (1 stamp, 1 front, 1 cachet piece) For more images, please visit https://www.sandafayre.com/itemdetails.aspx?s=638942

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Sandafayre Ltd is a well established company trading for over 30 years from Knutsford, Cheshire, just south of Manchester, England. We were one of the first ever mail bid auction companies; distance selling stamps and philatelic material by post and have grown to be the biggest mail auction company for stamps in the world.
We are probably the largest speciality auction on the Internet!

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SOUTH AUSTRALIA "SAVED FROM THE WRECK OF THE COLOMBO." framed 2-line cachet on a cover front (these covers always damage

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