Lot no. 6205
371st Auction
Condition
6Catalogue no.2+US41
Opening3.000 €
Sold for3.200 €
VENEZUELA-UNITED STATES: 1871, Lettersheet from La Guaira with frontside merchant handstamp, via forwarding agent "NUNES FILS & Co. ST. THOMAS 13 DEC. 71" (on reverse), franked with Danish West Indies 1866, 3 cents carmine-rose (partly touched/cut into), sheet margin at bottom, cancelled by ring cancel, and also US 1870, 10 cents brown, tied by "N. YORK STEAM SHIP DEC 19", adjacent dispatch mark "ST. THOMAS 13/12 1871". A fine and scarce cover, certificate APS (2002)