Lot 1558
1898 cover to rare destination Tonga bearing...
Stamps and Postal History of the World | 5919
Auction: 6 October 2020 at 01:00 BST
£190
Description
1898 cover to rare destination Tonga bearing 2½d "Jubilee" tied by 'Sandown/Isle of Wight SP 23 98' alongside endorsed "via San Francisco", double rate cover to Captain A. Mostyn Field R.N. HMS "Penguin" that was surveying the islands of the western pacific for the routing of a proposed new telegraphic cable with a secondary objective to deliver the "Funafuti Coral Reef Boring Expedition of the Royal Society" to Funafuti (Vanuatu archipelago) to test Charles Darwins' hypothesis for the formation of coral atolls, very fine, an item for the connoisseur
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