• SGFR2

Description

1878, MY 13 cover to F, Coleman Esq, 394 Gracechurch Street, Falkland Islands Comp, London E,C, with crispy clear strike of the red Frank at upper right and fine type F1 despatch cds at lower left, with 6 rate mark in magenta ink, indicating postage paid, alongside, Red LONDON E,C, arrival backstamp of JY 1 78, minor envelope creasing still a really fine and desirable cover, one of five known from the last mail beforehand the introduction of postage stamps, carried by the Black Hawk to Montevideo, and thence by RMSP Mondego to Southampton, the addressee was the secretary of the Falkland Islands Company, his customary/magenta docketing reveals the enclosed letter to have been written on May 7 by the Rev, Yeoman, Just 23 red Frank covers are recorded, this being one of the finest available, No 13/78 in the Barnes listing/illustrated in colour on plate vii, cat £ 26,000, ex stock Stanley Gibbons, XF-SUP! Estimate 32.000€.

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