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Auction: SW1015 - The Philatelic Collector's Series
Lot: 94

1859, 120c. blue, type 7, a very fresh and large margined example on 3 July 1858 entire letter from Montevideo to Rosario (Argentina), delightfully tied by blue ''Sala De Comercio/De/Montevideo'' ornate oval. The ''Chamber of Commerce'' of Montevideo, part from the commercial and maritime services, offered a special postal facility at late hour consisting of handling of restricted merchant correspondence when the state postal offices had already closed; the mail being charged the corresponding postal rate plus a further fee which paid in cash for this service, and was carried between Montevideo and Buenos Aires by the ferry trips under merchant control, with only nominal post office involvement or sanction. In this example, the cover was very probably transferred to the post at Buenos Aires for onward transmission to Rosario. (The contents written by the sender -a merchant- mention him to be very busy in that period, which may have influenced in the fact that the cover could not be consigned to the post before closing). One of three franked covers known carried through the Chamber of Commerce of Montevideo. Cert. P.F. Ciardi 10.

Estimate
€3,000