382nd Auction

1864, Entire folded letter from Calcutta to Port Louis, Mauritius, dated inside "Calcutta 2 Mai 1866", endorsed on front per steamer "ST JOSEPH", adjacent superb strike "6 d- TO PAY", reverse transit cds. "REUNION 4 JUIL. 66" and arrival "MAURITIUS JY 7 66"; very fine, a delightful and scarce maritime entire

1859/61, Britannia imperforated 6 d. dull purple-slate, good to large margins, with 1862, perf. 14 to 16, 6 d. slate, tied by numeral “B53” to letter sheet from “MAURITIUS SP 18 73” to France. Very fine and scarce.

1819/86, three stampless folded entires, one to London bearing on reverse large cds. "MAURITIUS POST OFFICE  APR 1819", also "The Merchants & Planters Gazette" with superb French maritime octogonal "POSS. ANG. PAQ. FR. T N°4 23 NOV. 86" (Salles 2153/4), fine and scarce group 

1824/1999 World accumulation of covers, postal stationery and cards, comprising a selection of Mauritius postal history from 1831 to modern, noted 1855 cover with Maritime Packet Letter mark in red, sent via Ceylon, Suez and Marseille to Bordeaux, also a large quantity of mail into Switzerland as well as mail sent from Geneva and Zurich, including printed The News of Soldier envelope sent to Algeria, good range of Romania, Yugoslavia, Slovakia, Russia, with a few Austria, France, French Colonies, Norway, India, Italy, Germany, noted stampless 1916 envelope with POW Shipment cachet in violet, datestamped Königsbrück sent to Algeria, a stampless 1824 entire from Odessa to Marseille, some field post, censor mail, air mail, undelivered, redirected and registered, very mixed, with some fine, a scarce assortment of covers.