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Beautiful & Very Rare Carnatic Steamer Cover of 1866 of Queen Victoria from Bombay to Aden.

Currency:INR Category:Coins & Paper Money Start Price:4,000.00 INR Estimated At:4,000.00 - 5,000.00 INR
Beautiful & Very Rare Carnatic Steamer Cover of 1866 of Queen Victoria from Bombay to Aden.
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Items over 100 years old cannot be taken out of India without the permission of the Director General ASI.
Steamer Cover, 1966, Queen Victoria, 4 Annas, cancelled with a round dispatch seal in black as “BOMBAY | JY 7 | 66 | INDIA PAID”, a “Stamped” mark overlapping the seal, and a parallel lined faded seal on stamp, dispatched from Bombay via steamer “Carnatic” on 7 July 1866 to “ADEN” addressed to “COWASJEE DINSHAW, ESQ | MERCHANT, | STEAM POINT,| ADEN.”, with a round delivery seal in black as “ADEN STR POINT | 21 JY | 66” on the back side, hand endorsed text in Gujarati script on the front side as “૨૧મીજૂલાઈ | ૧૮૬૬”, and marked “Per Steamer” on the top left of the cover, excellent condition, Rare.

Notes: SS Carnatic was a British steamship built in 1862-63 by Samuda Brothers for the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company and operated on the Suez to Bombay run in the last years before the Suez Canal was opened.
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