Lot no. 6002

The Gauthier Frères & Cie 1856-1857: "Barcelone" red ship letter stamp, touched at left, with parts of adjoining stamp on top, with clear  "G.F. & Co." manuscript cancel and additional vertical, on complete folded lettersheet written by M. L. Seller on the 4th of February 1857, endorsed "par Franc Comtois franco Havre" with red "OUTREMER LA HAVRE 13 MARS 1857" alongside, taxed "12" decimes, a very fine and only recorded entire

Provenance: The Julius Steindler Collection "Shipping Companies stamps" (Robson Lowe 1972)
                      The Denwood Kelly Collection (Robson Lowe 1985)
                      ex Klein, Mondolfo and "Robus"
                      depicted in  S. Ringstrom and H.E. Tester "The Private Ship Letter Stamps of the World - Part 2" page 151
                     depicted in L.N. Williams "Encyclopedia of rare and famous stamps, The Biographies", page 79