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Postal History of South Georgia, 1909 ~ 13

                                  ‘PAID at SOUTH GEORGIA’ PROVISIONALS
                                          EBB INITIALLED, JANUARY 1912
                                                   Cover at Empire 1d rate

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                       1912 Cover [Osborne R.3] at 1d Empire rate, datestamp SG1, JA 2 12
                       Handstamp SH 1B [with upper case ‘A’ in ‘At’ & initialled by ‘EBB’]

                           Taken by SS Cachalote outbound 4 January 1912 for Argentina
                                   Arrival marking, North Shields, FE 6 12, on reverse

                       The only known “Paid At” cover to England sent at 1d Empire rate
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