Lot no. 6572

Letter dated June 19th 1817 and sent from Lübeck to Åbo, Finland. The letter was prepaid to Hamburg "fr Hbg" and the transit postage from Hamburg to Denmark to and through Sweden was marked in handwriting 1 Rdr 12 S (killing) banco. Grislehamn was an important exchange post office and received a handstamp already in 1816 (Straight line handstamp type 1), three years before any other post office than the one in Stockholm.