1861 (1 April) Entire Letter Veracruz to Bordeaux sent per steamer via Southampton with 8 charge mark and oval VERCRUZ 1 ABRIL 1861 on reverse in black alongside double arc VERA CRUZ in black on the same day. GB accountancy mark and Calais transit CDS with Bordeaux arrival b/s. Horiz. filing fold and age marks otherwise fine. GBP0 (ImageA)

1862 (28 Dec) CEMF French Expeditionary Corps in Mexico: Cover bearing Napoleon 20c blue and 40c orange pair tied four strikes of CEMF dotted diamond cancels with Bureau F CDS alongside paying the 100c rate to Cusset France sent via England. Higher letter bureau are much scarcer. GBP0 (ImageA)

1866-72 Three covers bearing imperfs including 1867 1r & 2r combination, 1866 2r orange imperf tied cds, 1872 Hidalgo 12c blue imperf pair tied PUEBLA cds. Nice trio. GBP0 (ImageA)

1872 Hidalgo imperf Classics assembly in a small booklet mainly fine used four margin examples including 12c blue (6 + pair), 25c red (30), with mostly Veracruz overprints. Attractive lot. (38). GBP0 (ImageA)

Fournier Forgery: Album page from the original book showing examples of his work on Hidalgo (2), Coat of Arms (3), Maximilian (2), 1872 used (3), Porte De Mar stamps (3), then ovpts and a postmark strip of 7 different cancels. Very fine and attractive album piece. (22 examples). GBP0 (ImageA)

Pre-Stamp Wrappers and entire letters mainly a correspondence to Durango for 1840s to 1860s includes many nice town handstamps single and two line in red or black, paid marks incl 2 h/s in red or black, noted FRANCO / EN NAZAS, PAPAQUIARO, 1846 MEXICO / DICIEMBRE 12 boxed in red with 5 charge in red to Durango, ZACATEGAS / MARKO 6, CERREGORDO, CHIHUAHUA 3, PUERTO DE / MAZATLAN (2 double line plus one red circular 1845 undated cancel), GUANAJUA 3, GUAD Y CALVO, DURANGO / JUNIO 23 7 chargemark, PARRAL, SAN LUIS POTOSI / MAYO 21, SOMEBRERETE, 1838 FRANQUEADO CDS in red to London, VERA CRUZ dated arc in black 1842 & 1847 to London. Mainly fine, 20 items, nice collection of these attractive covers. GBP0 (ImageA)