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INDIA 1854 ISSUE 1855 ENTIRE FROM SWITZERLAND TO CARLOWITZ HARKORT & CO. IN CANTON, CARRIED PRI... Estimate: £500 - £600 SOLD £15,000 LIVE AUCTION from Spink. 2021 21010 - Collectors Series Sale - BACK NOW Category India Description: India Marke von 1854 Issue 1855 entire from Switzerland to Carlowitz Harkort & Co. in Canton, carried privately to Singapore where placed in the post by Rautemburg Schmidt & Co. with forwarding agent's cachet on face and sender's cachet on reverse, bearing 4a. blue and red 2nd. Printing horizontal pair both neatly cancelled with diamond of dots, the reverse with a weak "Paid" datestamp (Singapore?) and Hong Kong double-arc transit datestamp; the pair with faults and tied by a filing crease and traces of stamp paper on reverse where originally folded over prior to opening, though not unattractive. Sold on its merits

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