Lot 57
Falkland Islands SG 11a 1d red-brown bisect cover





The David Summers Collection of Bermuda and the South Atlantic | S26010
Auction: 29 April 2026 10:30 GMT
Description
1891 1d red-brown pair and diagonal bisect on envelope to Cumberland, tied by strikes of the ‘First Bisect’ cork. Despatch CDS at left of SP 4, date just legible. The envelope with unobtrusive horizontal crease, some soiling and part of backflap missing. From the eleventh bisect mail (the last before the arrival of the ½d value), carried on the ‘Theben’ to Punta Arenas and thence on the ‘Potosi’. Barton K7, with RPS Certificate (1958) as former SG 35/a, wrongly describing the stamps as claret. Ex North. SG 11, a, £4500





