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Auction: 19045 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale
Lot: 498

Gibraltar
The Spanish Overland Mail
Regular arrangements were made, about 1749, for the English Mails to be carried through Spain although the service was suspended in times of war.
1767 (7 Jan.) entire letter from Larache, Morocco to Marseilles, carried privately to Gibraltar where it was endorsed on reverse "Recevida el 26 marco y encaminada el 28 por la M.S. Juaqui Aboab Gibr", forwarded overland and showing a very fine strike of the Seville "Andalucia/Alta" h.s.; most attractive. Photo

provenance:
Spink auction, April 2010

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Sold for
£650

Starting price
£500