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EXTREMELY FINE. A COLORFUL AND UNUSUALLY CHOICE EXAMPLE OF THE 1869 15-CENT TYPE I PAYING THE TREATY RATE TO FRANCE.
Signed Ashbrook. Ex Krug. (Image)
VERY FINE. A DAZZLING ARRAY OF STAMPS AND POSTAL MARKINGS PACKED INTO ONE SMALL COVER, WHICH WAS FORWARDED BETWEEN LOCATIONS IN FRANCE VIA SWITZERLAND. ONLY FOUR 1869 15-CENT TYPE I COVERS WITH ADDITIONAL FOREIGN FRANKING ARE RECORDED.
Divonne is a French town in the Alps region, about 20 miles north of Geneva. This letter was forwarded from Paris on a train to Switzerland. The Swiss post office carried it to Gex (via Coppet and Geneva), where it re-entered the French postal system. The country name "Suisse" in the forwarding address is crossed out and corrected to "Ain" (French region), which indicates this was misdirected to Switzerland.
Illustrated in color in 1869 PRA Census (p. 141). (Image)
FINE. A REMARKABLE WELL-TRAVELLED 15-CENT 1869 PICTORIAL ISSUE COVER TO FRANCE, EGYPT AND BACK TO FRANCE.
The original enclosure states that the writer expected the letter would reach the addressee in the "Eternal City" near the Nile River. Therefore, Drexel, Harjes & Co. must have had instructions to forward mail to Alexandria, Egypt. Evidently, the cover got there but the addressee did not, and the letter was returned to Paris. (Image)