Belize 1860 ANTONIO MATHE Forwarding Agent Cover London to Guatemala
Stampless folded letter, datelined London, without London postal markings, struck in transit through Belize with oval handstamp of ANTONIO MATHE / BELIZE / HONDURS, 13mm "4". charge mark struck in black, reported by Harper used between 1853-67, a scarce example of this forwarding agent marking, ex-Drs. Harper. Mathe was the official Guatemala Postal Agent in Belize.
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Chile 1859 10c Colon Bisect Folded Cover CHANARCILLO Straight-Line Potrero
Folded letter, with contents, franked with 10c pale blue Colon, bisected diagonally, tied by black target cancel, struck with choice CHANARCILLO straight-line, to Potrero Seco, a pleasing example of this rare strike. (MPF15).
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Chile 1859 5c Colon on Blued Paper Folded Cover w/SANTA ROSA Straight-Line
Folded cover, without contents, franked with four-margin Colon, 1855 London Printing, brown red on blued paper, showing portion of adjoining stamps on three sides, tied by neatly-struck SANTA ROSA straight-line in black (MPF40b), to Santiago, a choice example and rare usage, with 1980 RPSL certificate. (Sc. 8)
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France (Offices in the Levant) 1870 Turkey Mixed Franking Cover Aleppo
Folded cover, without contents, franked on reverse with 1pi and 20pa Turkish adhesives, tied by Arabic cancel of Aleppo, postmarked with Aleppo (12 Sep) c.d.s., likely carried via camel caravan over the desert to the French Post Office at Alexandretta, where it was postmarked on 13 Oct and franked with 10c bistre and 30c brown 1863 Laureated Napoleon, cancelled with 5079 "Gros Chiffres" and carried onwards to Marseille via the paquebot "S/S Tanais", struck with boxed red "Paquebots / de la / Mediterranee", reverse with Smyrna (17 Oct) and Marseille (24 Oct) c.d.s. backstamps, light wrinkles at lower left, adhesives with some toned perfs, a scarce mixed franking and early use of the coast perforated 20pa Third Duloz issue; ex Cihangir.
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Germany (Wurttemberg) 1859 4-Times Used Turned Cover 2x 3kr Printings Tubingen
3kr orange-yellow, used in combination with three 1859 3kr yellow-orange, on turned cover used four times; twice from Tubingen to Ohringen and twice from Ohringen to Tubingen, adhesives with the odd fault, but chiefly sound and fine, a dramatic and unusual usage of two different printings, with tremendous visual appeal, scarce and fine; with Thomas Heinrich BPP certificate.
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Great Britain 1808 Ireland MERMAID Free Frank Stampless Folded Cover Drogheda
1808, folded cover, postmarked with red DROGHEDA 24 straight-line, to the Honourable John Foster, Chancellor of the Exchequer (Ireland), Dublin, with red crowned "FREE" double-framed "Mermaid" datestamp (Sep 30), manuscript"8" charge fee applied in error and cancelled upon arrival in Dublin, light vertical filing fold, a fine example of this scarce and desirable "Mermaid" marking.
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