Lot 6170
1857, Double rate lettersheet from the Swedish/Norwegian Consulate at Port Louis, backstamped with red "PACKET LETTER MAURITIUS JU 19 1857", endorsed "per overland mail via Trieste" to Stockholm, prepaid to Alexandria with "2/-", charged "12½" sgr. for sea post Alexandria-Triest and German Postal Union fee; due to a mistake at the Swedish exchange office postage due of "1(Rdr) 37 (sk) 6 (rst) was noted instead of the correct 1-19-6; a very rare entire via the overland mail; 3 letters from the skilling period from Mauritius to Sweden are recorded
