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Auction: 14019 - The "Foxley" Collections of British Guiana and British Honduras
Lot: 1505

British Honduras
Early Letters and Handstamps
Transit Mail
1839 (3 Jan.) entire letter from Philadelphia to the French Consul-General in San Salvador, carried to New York where Gilpin (large red f.a.c. on reverse) arranged carriage by private ship to Belize, and subsequently forwarded (probably through Marshall Bennett) by schooner to Yzabel and overland to Guatemala and San Salvador; the face panel showing handstruck "4" (reales) for the Guatemala leg

provenance:
H. Madden

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Sold for
£70