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Auction: 16USA - The Frederick R Mayer Collection of Costa Rica
Lot: 6

San Juan De Nicaragua/forwarded by A.L. Beschor & Co. double oval handstamp, two folded entires each from San Jose to Washington, D.C. sent via Greytown, where all international mail was sent through a mail agent, each bearing the scarce forwarding agent´s cachet, one being a single rate letter dated December 7, 1851 and with ""STEAMSHIP/10"" handstamp applied upon arrival in New York, another being a double rate letter dated August 9, 1851 and with ""STEAMSHIP 20"" applied, the single rate letter with trivial ink erosion in address, very fi Estimate US$ 325-375

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