Auction 333-341 Western Australia & Great Britain - Day 3

Crimean War 1854: Great Britain 1 d. red-brown on blued paper, Die I, wmk. Small Crown, perf. 16, a horizontal strip of three, used on 1855 cover to Brighton (Spencer Smith correspondence) endorsed "Black Sea Fleet" and "via Marseilles", tied by "*♚*" obliterators in black. Reverse with "POST OFFICE / BRITISH ARMY" code A datestamps in blue (March 19), London cds and Brighton arrival (March 28). In common with other covers from this correspondence the stamps are trimmed at top with spike hole in centre of envelope; the writer is known to have been aboard H.M.S. Curacoa.
Provenance: Collection Hugh Wood.