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Auction: 20041 - The "Dubois" Collection of Jamaica Postal History and Stamps - Part I - conducted behind closed doors
Lot: 129

The Transit Handstamps
1842 (5 May) entire letter from "Arequipa" Peru via Panama, Jamaica and UK by Royal Mail Steam Packet to Finistere, France, charged as a 2oz. letter at 15/6d. and re-rated as an 80 gram letter for France at £1.1.6d., France claiming 96c. on arrival, showing framed "Packet Letter" handstamp in red, with circular-undated "south america/via panama" alongside and Calais transit datestamp (11.9) below. Proud 1143 and three months earlier than recorded. Photo

provenance:
Andre Bollen, February 1983

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£1,300

Starting price
£650