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Auction: SW1020 - Maritime Mail of Spanish Colonies in America
Lot: 76

CubaOutgoing Mail1840, July 6. Cover with its contents from Havana to Berbice (British Guiana), via Jamaica and Barbados, reading "Recvd. from Cuba 22nd July forwarded by your obed. Serv. Ellin Shortt, Jamaica" in manuscript on reverse, alongside with Kingston double-arc datestamp, annotated, on front, "Care of Messrs. M. Cavan & Co., Barbados" notation at Barbados. Rate notations "1/-" and "3". An extremely rare mail from Cuba to a rare destination, with involvement in its carriage of three British West Indies territories.

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