Lot no. 8088

INDIA-SAXONY, 1851, Entire letter (receipt of the delivery of stockings and gloves and a report of the state of the Indian market) from Calcutta to Limbach, prepaid with "1/-" in red ink till Alexandria with adjacent red boxed "INDIA PAID" and reverse side red boxed "CALCUTTA G.P.O. SHIP LETTER 8 OC 1851". The letter is endorsed "p. St. Haddington via Triest" with transit mark of 15.10. For the conveyance from Alexandria to Saxony taxed with "3/3" groschen (instead of correct "3¼/3"), crossed out and a total of "6" neugroschen charged to the recipient. A fine and scarce entire Provenance: Arnim Knapp (357. Heinrich Köhler-auction, 2014)