Great Britain
Covers and stamps / Great Britain Incoming / Spain / Accountancy / European Transits
(Accountancy) 1830 outer letter sheet to London struck with an oval-framed GALICIA/ CORUNA handstamp, a two-line ESPAGNE PAR/ St. JEAN-DE-LUZ’ French entry handstamp and annotated “Via Calais”. On arrival the front struck with dotted framed ‘Oz at 8s/8d per Oz’ handstamp applied at the London Foreign Branch. Light vertical filing creases at sides.
£275
Spain
Covers and stamps / Spain
(Balearics) 1799 entire to Zaragoza written from Palma and bearing circular-framed MA/LLOR/CA handstamp, central ‘10’ handstamp and ‘8’ handstamp at right.
£145
Spain
Covers and stamps / Italy incoming mail / Spain / Consular Mail / Disinfected mail
(Balearics) 1819 (31 Oct) entire with printed ‘REGIO/ Consolato Generale/ Di S.M.Sarda/ in Mahone’ to Torino, Italy with straight-line MENORCA handstamp and, at top an interweaved SG (Sanita Genoa – in use 1819-20). Fine and scarce.
£295
Spain
Covers and stamps / Spain
(Balearics) 1829 small entire to Barcelona written from Palma bearing red straight-line MALLORCA handstamp and ‘8’ charge handstamp. Fine and clean condition.
£55
Spain
Covers and stamps / Spain / Napoleonic
(Balearics) Undated (ca. 1800) Napoleonic entire headed “Liberte” and “Egalite” to Marseille from Palma with circular-framed MA/LLOR/CA handstamp. Wafer seal on reverse.
£195
Argentina
Covers and stamps / Argentina / Great Britain Used Abroad / Spain / Crown Circles / Disinfected mail
(British Post Office - Disinfected) 1853 outer letter sheet to Barcelona, rated “1/-“ in manuscript, also bearing black crown circle Paid At Buenos Ayres that is overstruck by circular framed 7.R handstamp, endorsed at top “Via Canarias” with on reverse red Canarias (3 Ago) cds and Barcelona (18.8.)arrival, rated. The wrapper also shows four small diagonal slits for fumigation.
£445
Spain
Covers and stamps / Great Britain Used Abroad / Spain / Consular Mail
(British Post Office) 1842 entire to Porto and 1847 to London displaying both types of B.C./ CADIZ cancels of British Consular Service.
£65
Spain
Covers and stamps / Great Britain Used Abroad / Spain
(British Post Offices) 1845 (JY 31) outer letter sheet to London bearing red double arc Corunna cds of the British Post Office and rated “2/2”; two heavy filing creases, one through cancel.
£85
Spain
Covers and stamps / Argentina / Great Britain Used Abroad / Spain / Crown Circles
(Canary Islands) 1853 entire to Buenos Ayres with endorsement on reverse folded out for display which was overlaid once delivered to the “Paqueta Amalia” Captain at Cadiz, datelined from Puerto Real and endorsed “Via de Tenerife” and bearing very fine British crown-circle PAID AT TENERIFFE, where "2/-" double rate was charged,"10" quartos charged on arrival. Ex. Sacher.
£1950
Spain
Covers and stamps / Spain / Disinfected mail
(Disinfected Mail) Circa 1850 front bearing fine blue handstamp ALCAYDIA DAL LAZARETO/ DE St SIMON, twp disinfection slits, to Pontevdra. Of the few examples of this large cachet, all are recorded on fronts only.
£175
Portugal
Covers and stamps / Portugal / Spain / Maritime
(Maritime Mail) 1837 (4.7.) entire from Cadiz, Spain to Porto, endorsed "P Steamer Iberia", faint oval-framed C.Est de N applied in Lisbon whose cds appears on reverse, '160' reis charge handstamp with '40' added in manuscript, the top right showing the P.S.N.C. company handstamp Peninsular Steam Navigation CY Cadiz. Only three of these cachets are recorded on cover, and all in 1837
£365
France
Covers and stamps / France / Spain / Mourning
(Maritime Mail) 1861 mourning entire to Barcelona bearing single franking, four margined 40c. imperf Napoleon tied two-line ESTRANGERO/ BARCELONA, handstamped ‘3’ charge, arrival backstamp.
£95
France
Covers and stamps / France / Spain / Military
(Military) 1827 entire to Pamplone from San Sebastian bearing two-line ‘A Bis/ ARM.D’ESPAGNE’ handstamp, rated ‘2’ decimes; very fine small, neat entire.
£165
Spain
Covers and stamps / Japan / Spain / France / Consular Mail / Disrupted Mail
(Spanish Civil War) 1937 (14.1.) ‘Legacion Del Japon/ Madrid’ envelope to Consulate of Japan, Cape Town, carried outside of the mails to St Jean de Luz because of disruptions caused by the War, there franked with French adhesives tied St Jean de Lux Basses Pyrennie. Reverse with fine wax seal Legation Du Japon Madrid. Without arrival, some toning.
£185
Spain
Covers and stamps / Spain
1657 long and thick entire written from Cadiz to Amberez without postal markings; a fine early entire.
£75
Spain
Covers and stamps / Spain
1687 entire from Cadiz to Amberez with manuscript rate marking, in fine condition.
£55
Spain
Covers and stamps / Italy incoming mail / Spain
1699 (?) entire from Sevilla to Florence, Italy without postal markings, annotated "13-4", wafer seal on reverse, ink smudge on front
£95
Spain
Covers and stamps / Spain
1756 (27 Janv) entire to Paris bearing straight-line CADIZ handstamp with large ‘C’, in use between 1755-56 only and rated EXT in M.Tizon catalogue.
£145
Portugal
Covers and stamps / Belgium / Portugal / Spain / European Transits
1786 entire from Faro to Gand, Belgium sent via the Spanish Postal Agent in Cadiz and struck with the straight-line PORTUGAL handstamp, manuscript "13" rate mark. An early example of this rare marking and believed to be the only recorded example on a letter written outside of Lisbon.
£295
Spain
Covers and stamps / Great Britain Incoming / Ireland incoming mail / Spain / Consular Mail
1810 (SE 11) entire to Dublin, Ireland that has been handed into British Consulate at Cadiz after the mail had closed and too late to be included in the mail bag and thus carried loose to Falmouth where green CADIZ/ SE 11/ 1810/F date stamp was applied, manuscript “2/-“ rate applied for mail to Falmouth and then overland to London and thence to destination. The envelope with some spotting, a good clear strike of this scarce cancel.