AUSTRALIAN COLONIES, INCOMING MAIL TO THE AUSTRALIAN COLONIES, CAPE OF GOOD HOPE

Lot 187		Estimate: $5,000 1860 (13 Jan) cover (partly opened out for display) from Graaf Reinert to Melbourne, franked with 1855 Perkins Bacon triangular printings 1d Rose pair and 6d Pale Rose-lilac (both touched) tied by 'CGH' obliterators. Endorsed 'Via Mauritius' and with Graaf Reinert, Cape Town and Melbourne (MA 11 60) backstamps. Some tears on reverse, otherwise generally fine. Cape triangulars are very rare used to Australia