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Auction: SW1020 - Maritime Mail of Spanish Colonies in America
Lot: 240

PeruTransit Mail1807, June 2. Entire letter datelined in Cádiz (Spain) to Buenos Aires, presumably conveyed by a merchant vessel, not calling at Buenos Aires, to Lima, infreqeuntly carried in the Pacific Ocean for this destination, bearing straight-line handstamp in red of Lima, where it entered the mails, then continuing its route overland via Potosí. A very interesting and rare letter following an intricate maritime route.

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€700