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Auction: 18009 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series
Lot: 1830A

Spain
Puerto Rico
1513 (7 Oct.) entire three page letter from Antonio Sedeno to the House of Contractacion Ochoa de Ysasaga, Seville, with transcript (in Spanish) and notes, without postal markings; some water damage but most attractive and exceptionally rare and important. One of the earliest transatlantic letters recorded. Signed Bolaffi. Photo

note:
Puerto Rico was discovered by Christopher Columbus on his second trip on 19 November 1493. The letter offered above was written just a little under twenty years after Columbus's discovery and originates from a recent find of six letters.

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Sold for
£6,500