383rd Auction

1871, folded cover to Buenos Aires, Argentina, struck with blue two-line cachet of Francisco Aballi of Matanzas, Cuba, carried privately to St. Thomas, reverse with oval forwarding agent’s handstamp of J. Niles & Co, conveyed to D.W.I. Post Office and postmarked St. Thomas (30 Dec), domestic postage paid in cash, affixed with United States 10c brown and 4d vermilion of Great Britain (plate 12), handstamped with circular STEAMSHIP the former paying for conveyance to Rio de Janeiro via the United States & Brazil Mail Steamship Co, likely carried on the North America to Rio de Janeiro, where the 4d was cancelled with C83 oval, then carried onwards to Buenos Aires, internally docketed as received on 27 January, creases and toning, accompanying certificate notes “repaired”, but an extremely scarce combination of United States and Great Britain adhesives used on mail conveyed from Cuba to Argentina via St. Thomas; signed Alberto Diena, with 1986 APEX certificate.

Provenance:

Collection Reinhold Koester, Christie’s Zurich, 26 June 1985, lot 2375

David Feldman Rarities Auction, AMERIPEX ‘86, 30 May, 1986, lot 50077

1878, Ganzsachenkarte 10 Pfennig schwarz ab "HELIGOLAND SP 1 1882" via Bordeaux nach Rosario, Argentinien, vorderseitig Transitstempel "BUENOS AIRES 30 SET 82" sowie Ankunftsstempel, winzige Beförderungsspuren, eine ungewöhnliche und seltene Destination