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Auction: 163 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale
Lot: 1021

Bootleg Mail from Cuba to London, group of three 1863-69 unusual covers, concerning sugar trade, written in Havana and Matanzas and posted in London for onward transmission to Genoa in Italy, each bearing a different G.B. franking, 6d, 7d and 1s rates, these being most probably dispatched in London in order to save postal fees, few examples are recorded; in addition three 1842-56 stampless letters to London bearing the double-arc datestamp of the British P.O. at Havana, a very fine group.

Estimate
$400 to $500