Lot 3094
Württemberg 18kr orange (Michel 29), horizontal pair used with 1863 9kr and 1865 6kr (Mi. 28a, 32a) cancelled Stuttgart c.d.s.s., 27 Jan 1866, on cover to Puebla, Mexico, redirected to Tulancingo, red boxed "P.P." and London Paid transit c.d.s. (29.1), Mexico "2" (reales credit) overstruck with "0" because the addressee was military, manuscript "wf 43" indicating foreign postage of 43kr via England; addressee's surname, Schmid, has been re-inked where it had previously been blacked out. A Fine and rare usage and a spectacular franking. Scott 40, 39a, 43.
Estimate 5,000 - 7,500
Expertization: signed Droese with 1996 Irtenkauf Certificate.
Provenance: Nehrlich
The letter is addressed to Dr. Herman Schmid who was a Captain and the Chief Medical Officer of the Austrian troops in the employ of Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico.
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