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Auction: SW1020 - Maritime Mail of Spanish Colonies in America
Lot: 147

EcuadorOutgoing Mail1815 circa. Envelope with red wax seal on back, sent from Guayaquil to a Colonel of the Army in the Royal Court of Madrid, graced by magnificent clean strikes of "Guaiaquil/Deve" two-line & "Peru" straight-line handstamps in red, both struck on dispatch, taxed with "8.R" marking in Europe as required for an unpaid single weight letter up to 5 "adarmes". It was probably carried via Panama-Cartagena-Havana-Corunna. One of the finest of only five covers recorded exhibiting the "Peru" postmark of Guayaquil.

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