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Auction: SW1020 - Maritime Mail of Spanish Colonies in America
Lot: 148

EcuadorOutgoing Mail1818. Cover from Guayaquil to Cádiz (Spain), with involvement in its carriage of the "Vigarrena" frigate (endorsement at lower left), paying the manuscript rate of 15 reales on receipt, for a half ounce weight, bearing "Peru" straight-line & "Guaiaquil/Deve" two-line handstamps in red, both applied at Guayaquil, being re-folded on arrival and re-addressed on the opposite side to be forwarded to Madrid at 3 "quartos" rate with "Cadiz" straight line. Datestamp of Madrid of January 25, 1819. Another desirable example of only five items known bearing the "Peru" postmark of Guayaquil.

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