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Auction: SW1020 - Maritime Mail of Spanish Colonies in America
Lot: 31

CubaOutgoing Mail1773, June 2. Receipt for the passage from Havana to Cartagena de Indias (nowadays Colombia) on board the ship "Postillón de La Habana", signed by Don José Antonio de Armona, the first Postmaster General of Cuba after the creation of the Royal Maritime Service between Corunna and Havana at the end of 1764. The "Postillón de La Habana" was the first vessel purchased in 1766 to carry the mails within Spanish possessions in the West Indies and the Gulf of Mexico. (No Photo)

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