1875: Stationery postal card ½ penny bright lilac, uprated with Line Engraved 1864 1 penny red, two singles and a 1869 ½ penny rose-red (corner fault), all of good colour, some perforation faults, tied by duplex “506 MARGATE AP 10 73” in black, sent to Paris, France, with red oval “PD” and transit cds “CALAISE 11 AP 83. Reverse, cds ”LONDON AP 10 73" and faint arrival “PARIS 11 AP 73”. Creased and soiled. Scarce example illustrating a ‘paid at the letter rate to France’ but despatched contrary to regulations.
