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Auction: SW1020 - Maritime Mail of Spanish Colonies in America
Lot: 204

PanamaTransit Mail1810 circa. Large cover front from Lima to Madrid, with "Perù" straight-line handstamp (Sitjà type II) on dispatch, endorsed "Por la Preciosa" corresponding to the ship which carried this mail, and "Panama", denoting an extraordinary route with the purpose of avoiding entering part of the Nueva Granada territory during the War of Independence of Colombia. "4 Ø 4" manuscript weight paid by the handstamped "115R" rate, which represents one of the highest potal fees recorded on surviving colonial mail from Peru. A very rare mail following, as a result of war events, an extraordinary route via Panama, then via Portobello and Havana to Cádiz.

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