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Auction: SW1020 - Maritime Mail of Spanish Colonies in America
Lot: 166

MexicoOutgoing Mail1781, Oct. 19. Folded cover with its contents from Veracruz to Maracaibo (Venezuela), carried by the small "Nuestra Señora de los Remedios" sloop, which regularly sailed between Veracruz and the Caribbean coast of Central America, with its captain being Pedro Miguel de Aguiar, therefore endorsed "Paqt. de Aguiar" (an exceptional indication mentioning the captain and not the name of the vessel), handstamped on dispatch with "1" real rate marking for an unpaid double weight, framed "Veracruz." and "Yndias" straight line. The earliest cover reported bearing the oval "Veracruz" and, the extensively used, "Yndias" postmarks from this city, which was an important postal administration at that time. Ex Kouri.

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