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Auction: SW1020 - Maritime Mail of Spanish Colonies in America
Lot: 342

CubaBritish Post OfficesSantiago de Cuba1846, March 2. Entire letter from Santiago de Cuba to St. Pierre (Martinique), carried by the Spanish ship "Genil" as per sender's directive, exhibiting a superb complete strike of "Paid/At/St.jago-De-Cuba" crowned circle, applied in red from 1843 to 1846, with matching double-arc datestamp in black magnificently struck on reverse, rated at 1 shilling and 60 centimes on delivery, both marked at top left in manuscript. This rare marking was missing in some of the most renowned collections dedicated to the British post offices abroad. Probably the finest of at most eight items recorded with this postmark. It is also included an additional cover dated March 8, 1848 carried at 2s. 3d. rate from Santiago to London with the double-arc datestamp. S.G. CC4. Ex Borromeo d'Adda.

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