Lot 275
Falkland Is SG 8a, 11 1891 part registered cover to London
Stamps and Covers of the World Including the Hambledon Collection Part III | S26027
Auction: 17 & 18 November 2026, 10:30 GMT
Description
1891 part registered cover to London, reduced at right. Incomplete franking, presumably lacking two further 1d stamps from the right side, made up of 1887 1d brownish claret bisect and 1891 1d red-brown corner pair, imperforate at base and right, well tied by strikes of the Large Squares cork (Barnes 1/91, late stage). The front also with Crown registered mark, despatch of NO 16 and London arrival 19 DE. This is the only recorded bisect cover from this mail, carried by ‘Theben’ to Montevideo and thence by ‘Magdalena’; additionally, one of very few covers with the Large Squares cancel and very unusual with the combination of two different printings. BPA Certificate (1957) identifying the stamps as ‘1d claret wmk sideways’, and describing the item as on a ‘Large piece’. SG 8a, 11, £4000 as full cover
