By: Heinrich Koehler Auktionen
lot # 9215 - Main catalogue transatlantic post
1851, EUROPA: Ocean Penny Postage Envelope from "AIRDRIE JN 13 1851" to Belleville, Upper Canada, red manuscript "paid 1/2" (2d British inland + 8d British sea postage + 2d U.S. transit + 2d Canadian inland), the premium rate to Canada per Cunard via the US, via "LIVERPOOL JU 15 1851" to New York and than cross-border to Belleville with arrival mark "(BELLE)VILLE JUL 6 1851", fine and beautiful and extremely rare use of this envelope, sent by transatlantic steamer from Great Britain to the United States and then by cross-border mail to Canada, signed Jakubek
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