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Auction: 19045 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale
Lot: 504

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.
1808 (2 Oct.) entire letter ex the Priaulx correspondence to Weymouth (to be forwarded to Guernsey), marked "Via Corunna", rated "4/-" (deleted), "4/1" (deleted) and "4/2", showing good to fine strike of scarce "s.roque./andalucia/baxa" h.s. in red. A fine cover. Photo

Note: The overland mail service to Corunna for the Falmouth Packets was re-opened, for a very short period, in May 1808.

provenance:
G.A. Osborn, May 1991
Spink auction, April 2010

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Sold for
£350

Starting price
£320