Los 1082
½ r. gray-blue, worn impression, good margins on three sides, touched at bottom, used to pay the single domestic rate per ¼ or., tied by cds. "QUITO 30 JUL" to small mourning cover to Paris, transferred at the Guayaquil to the British P.O. with corresponding double arc datestamp on reverse, for carriage by PSNC steamer to Panama, thence placed on H.M. packet to England. Anglo-French "GB/1F90c" accountancy marking applied on mail up to 30gr. from the Pacific coast, with french entry and "12" decimes due marking to be paid be the addressee. A very rare cover to a transatlantic destination., only about 5 covers are known. Signed Holcombe with certificate and certificate Moorhouse (Scott Nr. 2a)
