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Auction: SW1020 - Maritime Mail of Spanish Colonies in America
Lot: 220

PeruIncoming Mail1765, Feb. 2. Entire letter from Cádiz (Spain) to Lima, struck by fine red España" straight-line handstamp, applied on departure, endorsed at lower left "q. D. C." (Quem Deus Conserveat) and denoting the carriage by the merchant ship "Matamoros", which followed the difficult route via Cape Horn. It was a single weight letter implying three reales due from the addressee. After 1764 only the ports of Cádiz and Corunna, where the "España" marking was applied, could trade with the American colonies. The earliest recorded transatlantic letter exhibiting any of the extensively used "España" postmarks.

Estimate
€15,000