Los-Nr. 8015

1883: 2 kr. brown postal stationery card used to the "Handelshaus Dallmann & Co.", Singapore up-rated with 1876 2 kr. yellow (three examples) tied by 'Graz' datestamps (April 29) in black and by scarce PENANG AND SINGAPORE / PAID datestamp (May 31). On arrival the card returned to sender in Graz franked by Straits Settlements 1882 2 c. brown tied by company cachet and circular SINGAPORE P.O. handstamp in black. A delightful and rare usage from the Mayerle correspondence. The Austrian merchant Dallmann & Co. in Singapore was managed by two Swiss. In 1914 the company was merged with Diethelm & Co. Later, Wilhelm Heinrich Diethelm, who emigrated already in 1871 from the Canton of Thurgau at the age of 23 to act as a general agent for a Dutch Trading House in Singapore, was one of the pioneers who founded the Swiss Trading company giant D.K.S.H!