Lot 1189
1886 Overseas mail. Very fine cover to...

Stamps and Postal History of the World | 5929
Auction: 18 November 2021 at 00:00 GMT
£220
Description
1886 Overseas mail. Very fine cover to Lifu, Loyalty Islands, prepaid by four 1d lilac (Die II) cancelled by London S.E. duplexes for AU.19.1886. Backstamped in Paris and Noumea for AU.21 & OC.12.1886 respectively. A rare destination item, Lifu is the principal island of the Loyalty Islands archipelago sitting just to the east of the French territory of New Caledonia, N.E. of Australia.

