Lot 281
Falkland Is SG 15, 33x 1893 front to the Foreign Office in London

Stamps and Covers of the World Including the Hambledon Collection Part III | S26027
Auction: 17 & 18 November 2026, 10:30 GMT
Description
1893 front of registered cover to the Foreign Office at Downing Street, bearing ½d blue-green block of four and 6d orange-yellow single, cancelled or tied by individual strikes of ‘Pointed nose F1’ cork (Barnes 1/93), showing signs of deterioration, with Crown registered mark, despatch cds of FE 16 and London arrival. Probably double the 2½d rate plus 2d registration, overpaid by 1d. Carried on the ‘Tanis’. SG 15, 33x

