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Auction: 19045 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale
Lot: 512

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.
1837 (15 July) entire letter to Genoa, rated "8" and "41", showing fine "de gibr/s.roque/andabaxa" and "espagne/par oleron" handstamps in red and handstruck "2"; and 1837 (28 Sept.) entire letter to Marseilles, rated "20" and "21", showing straight-line "catalan", "espagne par/perpignan" and handstruck "2", all in red. A good pair of covers sent during the Carlist war

Note: During the Carlist civil war, 1833 to 1840, the area of fighting in northern Spain caused closure of the mail route via St. Jean de Luz. This forced the use of the high route through the Pyrenees, indicated by the "Espagne par Oleron" marking or the routing via the north east indicated by the marking "Espagne par Perpignan".

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