Lot no. 6192

1898, HAPAG ship-illustrated cover, franked with 10c grey-blue & red-brown, inverted frameline, cancelled in manuscript and tied by faint FLANDRIA straight-line in violet, to Altona, Germany, endorsed in manuscript “per S.S. Flandria”, postmarked “AUS WESTINDIEN / UBER COLN / P. HAMBURG DAMPFER” and “Coln(Rhein) - Verviers / Bahnpost / Zug 5” railway transit (30 Mar), same-day Altona c.d.s. arrival backstamp, edge creasing and the odd toning spot, a difficult purser’s mark.