1856, East India, 8 a. carmine, blue glazed paper, used on cover from CALCUTTA to Bordeaux, tied by a combination of handstruck straight-line "Stamped" in blue and double octagonal "B/1" in black, dated 2 oct 1856, with boxed "INDIA/PAID" in red alongside charge mark “10”, endorsed "Via Marseille" and "P. St. Oriental", on reverse a GPO/Calcutta datestamp in red, transit mark sLyon a Paris and Paris a Bordeaux, arrival Bordeaux 3.10.56, adressee name partly cut out, otherwise a fine example of a single franking India to France.
