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Auction: SW1015 - The Philatelic Collector's Series
Lot: 172

1869, Feb. 21. Entire letter from San Juan de Puerto Rico to Genoa (Italy), paying the external maritime rate with 1868 40c. orange pair and single tied by anchor lozenges and, incidentally, red boxed “PD” which is repeated alongside, also showing very fine “St Jean-de-Porto-Rico” consular datestamp (Salles fig. 1368), with Ligne-B and Ligne-D c.d.s.’s on reverse from the St. Nazaire-Veracruz and the annexed St. Thomas-Kingston lines, being carried to France by the “Louisiane”. A couple of wrinkles very slightly impinging on the franking. Stamps lifted for examination, repaired and put back into letter. One of the very few covers recorded from Puerto Rico with this franking. Maury 31.

Sold for
€420