

GREAT BRITAIN: 1870 (16 JUIN) Printed matter sent from Paris to London handstamped vertical oval French Accountancy mark FR/2F and bold ‘8d’ in association, London arrival backstamp, fine.


New South Wales: 1867 outer letter sheet to Nantes, France bearing Melbourne despatch cds, annotated to go “Via Marseille”, faint red Paris transit, diamond-framed accountancy ‘G.B./ 1f.62 4/10th c’ applied and rated ‘10’ decimes, reverse with Paris a Nantes tpo and Chanternay S Loire arrival cds

undated, probably late 1840 outer letter sheet to Cadiz bearing three-line S Roque transit in apparent mixture of red and black inks and also showing fine red 13½q rate handstamp. Such 23mm high marks are known on maritime mail from Britain but rated in reales, a previously unrecorded handstamp.