POSTAL HISTORY: 1957 commercial cover to Sir Irving Gane in London with 3d Island Boat tied by superb strike of the cds, minor blemishes. [In the late-1880s, following the failure of the island's potato crop & the loss of 15 of the island's best boatmen at sea, the Gane Fund To Help Tristan Islanders was established to provide financial and other support to the island. The founder was London solicitor Douglas M Gane, father of the addressee Sir Irving Gane, who took over as Secretary of the Fund in 1935]

Grade A- (Image1)

Estimate AU$50