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The First Victorian Keyplate 1872 to 1896
2nd West India Regiment
The only recorded example
of the first 2½d stamp with
inverted 2 / WIR perfin
10 May 1895 - Freetown to Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
A crested envelope from Lt. Rowland L. Telford to Miss Ethel Rew in Suffolk. Correctly franked 5d for
a double rate letter of between one and two ounces. The stamps have been cancelled by a late usage of a
Freetown B31 obliterator, with a Freetown datestamp of 10 May 1895 alongside. There is a Liverpool transit
datestamp of 26 May 1895, and a Bury St Edmunds arrival mark of 27 May 1895 on the flap.
