Lot 1885
Pre-UPU Foreign Destination Mail: 1584/1875, the fine and valuable 3 volume collection beautifully written up on album pages for exhibition, the collection opens with two 1584 & 1589 merchants letters from Corsini signed by «Filippe Corsini» and «Barth(olomew) Corsini» (said to be only 11 covers recorded from Bartholomew Corsini), good range of tax markings 1679 - 1840 incl. 1805 entire 6s.9d. rate (!) to Italy, 1822 entire 1 Gulden+14 Kreuzer rate to Wurttemberg, 1839 entire 2s./8 1/2d. rate to Athens. Later covers franked with adhesives (mostly Surface printed issues, some Embossed, including mixed frankings) incl. «Insufficiently Prepaid», Late Fee, REGISTERED, re-addressed etc., many different destinations incl. German States, Italian States, Finland (prepaid in cash 1850), Spain, Portugal, Ionian Islands (unpaid and with Greece Hermes Heads Four colour franking used as Postage Dues), Russia, Australia, New Zealand, Chili, Peru, Brasil, Argentina, Uruguay, Venezuela, Haiti, condition a little mixed with many fine
