Auction 265th - 273rd - Day 3

1881 (Jan 7): Nicaragua 1869 perf. 5 c. black and 1878/79 rouletted 25 c. green (Scott 5+12), used on 1881 cover from Marenco y Hermanos in Granada to Pector & Ducout in Paris (traders in brandy and gemstones) and cancelled by barred handstamp in black, with circular 'Correos de Nicaragua / Granada' cds in blue at left (Jan 7). Great Britain 1870 1½ d. lake-red pl. 3 and 1880 4 d. grey-brown pl. 17 (wmk. Garter) in a horizontal strip of three applied entirely over the Nicaragua adhesives tied by neat GREY-TOWN circular datestamps (Jan 15, code B) in black for full payment to destination (manuscript '1/1½' at left in pencil); with reverse showing London transit cds (Feb 10) in red and Paris arrival cds of the following day. The British adhesives lifted for checking, a spectacular combination cover with just two complete covers recorded with this franking, the other being ex Hubbard. Delightful.rnProvenance: Collection E.E. Yates, RL, London, 31 July-1 Aug 1940; Collection Charles Jewell; Collection Grant Glassco, RL, London, 25-27 Nov 1969, lot 899; Spink, London Private Treaty List, Spring 2000, lot 20.