FALKLAND ISLANDS 1891 SG13, 13a Cover from Stanley to England franked at double rate

Stock Code: P212019776

1891 (MR 28) cover from Stanley to Birmingham, Bragg correspondence, franked at 5d double rate by no fewer than TEN examples of the 1891 (Jan) ½d on half of 1d brownish claret including FOUR UNSEVERED PAIRS, two of which form a vertical pair with imperf sheet margin at foot, tied by individual fine to very fine strikes of type 1/90 "First Bisect" cork obliterator, with light but legible type F2 despatch cds below. Carried on the Kosmos steamer "Isis" as part of the fifth bisect mail. Wonderful and thus far unique, being the only recorded double rate cover franked solely by ½d surcharges in the Barton census (Barton E11). Heijtz cert (2010) notes, "It is the most important and a very famous bisect cover". Ex Grant (illustrated on p.42 of "The Postage Stamps of the Falkland Islands and Dependencies") and illustrated on p.31 of the Heijtz "Falkland Islands" catalogue (7th edition).

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