1755, QUEBEC (NEW FRANCE FRENCH PERIOD) ONE OF THE EARLIEST RECORDED COVERS WITH A POSTAL MARKING AND PROBABLY UNIQUE WITH A MANUSCRIPT FORWARDER AGENT MARKING. Canada entire letter from New France (french colonial period) "Quebec 2 aout 1755" send to Montauban / France with 8 sols postage due and a light "LA ROCHELLE" postal marking (Lenain #7), on back manuscript forwarder "achemine par votre tres humble serviteur / J Malroux /le 16 7bre". The contents mentions the transatlantic shipping of the cover by a french navy ship "celle cy passe par une fregatte de roy". A 1749 Quebec cover to Montauban was sold in the Steinhart collection (lot1005) for 29.500 CHF (including fees) described as "one of the earliest covers in private hands from Canada to France with a postal marking", but what makes our 1755 cover even more exceptional is that it seems to be the only known with a forwarder agent marking (none in the Nickle or Steinhart collecti (Image)