Lot 745
India QV-KGV Postal History group
Stamps & Covers of The World Including the Petra Collection | S25021
Auction: 25 November 2025 at 10:30 GMT
Description
1860s to 1920s group of covers, including 1869 Mourning cover to London, bearing 1a brown (x2) and 8a rose (Die II), tied by Duplexes, 1871 cover to London bearing 8a Die (II) tied by type 7 cancel B-1 in blue, with sender's cachet, 1874 cover to London bearing 2a orange (x8 as strip of three, pair and singles) and 4a green (Die I) tied by B-1 octagons in black and sender's cachets, 1878 cover to London bearing 6a pale brown pair, cover re-addressed on arrival and additionally franked by 1d rose-red (roughly separated with no perfs at right) and 1924 Mount Everest Expedition postcard bearing KGV 1½a tied by British Empire Exhibition cancel and label tied by Mt. Everest Glacier Base Camp cachet in red, mixed condition, an interesting lot.
