386th Auction

1872, General Issue Cérès 5 centimes green, horizontal pair with good margins, together with 30 centimes brown, neatly tied by blue dotted diamond “GOR” with adjacent blue cds “SENEGAL ET DÉPces * GORÉE 25 SEPT. 76” to mourning envelope to Bordeaux; on reverse faint postmark. One 5 centimes with small tear at top and 30 centimes light corner crease, otherwise a fine and attractive cover. Signed Calves and Jamet (Yvert-Nr. 17, 20)

Correctly franked at the 40 centimes French maritime rate to France, confirmed by the endorsement at top “Paquebot français” 

1877, Surcharge “HABILITADO 12 Cs. PTA” inverted on 2 centavos de peso rose, tied by cds “MANILA 18 SE 77” to printed shipping circular, with adjacent merchant's cachet “G. VAN POLANEN PETEL & Co. Manila", to Marseilles; red French "PAQ. ANG. V. BRIND 3 NOV 77" alongside and on reverse arrival mark "MARSEILLES 4 NOV 77". The entire with usual folds, well clear off adhesive. A great rarity; the only recorded example of an inverted surcharge on this value on entire. Certificate Graus (1999). (Scott 59a)

1 k. black/yellow, 3 k. black/green and 10 k. brown/blue horizontal pair, fresh colours, tied by cds “ODESSA 23 OCT. 1872” to envelope to Marseilles, France with two-line Austrian mark “A.P.D” and blue cds "AUTR. AVRICOURT" 9 NOV 72", reverse transit Wien, Paris and arrival cds “MARSEILLES 10 NOV 72”, very fine. An interesting mail having taken the Southern Route via Austria, correctly franked at the special 24 kopek rate (incl. an additional 4 kopek fee in force for Russian mail of Southern origin)

1868, 20 k. blue/orange, fresh colours, neatly tied by cds. “POSTAL WAGON N° 21-22 6 JAN. 1873” (Odessa-Kazatin line) to folded entire to Montpellier, France, framed “FRANKIROVANO” (franked), red “P.D.”, reverse Russian TPO 47-48 and TPO Breslau-ODERBERG, blue entry cds. “ALLEMAGNE ERQ. PARIS 22 JANV. 73”, extremely fine