Lot 54
Falkland Islands SG 8a 1891 1d brownish claret bisect cover to London




The David Summers Collection of Bermuda and the South Atlantic | S26010
Auction: 29 April 2026 10:30 GMT
Description
1891 1d brownish claret pair and bisected single, well tied by ‘First Bisect’ corks with reasonable strike of despatch CDS below, ex the Holmested (here misspelled) correspondence. The envelope with a vertical fold, the left whole stamp with trimmed perfs and the backflap missing, still a neat cover with interesting contemporary annotations. From the sixth bisect mail, carried by the S.S. Herodot to Punta Arenas and PSNC Sorata to Lisbon; Barton F10. SG 8a, £4000




