Auction 321 - 332 Romania – Special Catalogue, Worldwide Rarities – The ERIVAN Collection – 2nd Auction, Schweiz & Liechtenstein - Day 5

1840: 1 d. black, plate 1B, lettered PK, touched at upper right, otherwise large margins all around, tied by black Maltese Cross to entire letter, originally sent from Baden Baden in the Grand Duchy of Baden with frontside black "BADEN (G.B.) 1/9" c.d.s., carried via France to Dullwich, Surrey, here re-addressed to London and franked with the 1 d. black to pay the inland postage, multiple manuscript charge marks on front, the entire somewhat fragile with ink stain at left, but a rare re-addressed letter from a foreign country bearing a Penny Black, and the earliest recorded letter from the Duchy of Baden bearing an adhesive postage stamp. Certificate Louis BPP (2019)rnThis letter was prepaid 20 kreuzer in cash, of which 4 kreuzer covered the distance from within the Grand Duchy to the French border at Strasbourg; the remaining 16 kreuzer prepaid the distance to Calais. The 1s.4d. in manuscript denoted payment to Dulwich, it crossed-out and the 1d. black affixed for the Inland postage to London.