Lot 1260
GUADELOUPE: "PAID AT GUADALOUPE", red crowned-circle handstamp on front of folded letter sheet franked with France Colonies general issue 1859/62, 5 c. green and 40 c. vermilion in horizontal strip of 3, all with clear to large margins, the strip with large margins all around, with adjacent date stamp "POINTE-A-PITRE 10 JUIL 1863" and "STEAMSHIP 10" to New York, also red crayon rate marking "1/-", partly over the 5 c.; on reverse red date stamp of the British PO at Guadeloupe and transit mark of St. Thomas; a very fine and rare cover in very fresh condition
Provenance: Edward J.J. Grabowski (2007)
