Lot no. 8163

1864: Second page of entire letter from Leipzig to Batavia, Netherlands Indies endorsed 'Per Landmail via Triest', franked by third printing 1856/61 10 ngr. blue imperforate, large margins but just touched on outer right frameline, in combination with slightly oxidised 1863 1/2 ngr. orange and two 3 ngr. brown tied by LEIPZIG / DRESDEN BAHNH. datestamp (Nov 8) and by sender's cachet at left. Weiter franco '13 4/10' in blue manuscript and struck on front with British P.O. ALEXANDRIA cds in red (Nov 17) in transit with manuscript '1/-' in red crayon alongside. Reverse with Vienna cds (Nov 9), oval Triest datestamp (Nov 11) with handstruck '15/52' in black adjacent (Triest to Alexandria = 15 kr.), SINGAPORE P.O. datestamp (Dec) in red and Batavia arrival cds (Dec 18) in red. A delightful and extremely rare mixed issue cover to an exotic destination. Signed Kruschel. Cert. Rismondo (1996).  Wolf Curt von Schierbrand (1807-1888) came in 1825 to Batavia as a Corporal. He later worked as a zoological scientist.