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Auction: 16USA - The Frederick R Mayer Collection of Costa Rica
Lot: 104

#2, 1863 2r Scarlet, fine single, tied to folded letter to Frankfurt, Germany from the same correspondence as the previous lot, boxed 4 Agt 73"" clear handstamp ties stamp, and like the other cover it was sent via Colon with ""A Colon/Au 20/73"" c.d.s., and then transported on the Royal Mail steamship Nile to England, with red London transit c.d.s., marked in London with their ""1/5d"" due handstamp, three-line Coeln backstamp, upon arrival in Frankfurt it received three separate cancels, in addition to being marked ""50"" groschen due in blue cray Estimate US$ 550-650

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