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Auction: 21010 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale - Conducted behind closed doors
Lot: 4360

Gibraltar
The Spanish Overland Mail
Regular arrangements were made, about 1749, for the English Mails to be carried through Spain although the service was suspended in times of war.
1767 (23 Feb.) and (3 Apr.) entire letters from the same correspondence addressed "To be left at Forrests Coffee House, Edinburgh", both sent overland via Seville to Lisbon and then by packet to Falmouth, both with legible "Andalucia/Alta" h.s. and London Bishopmark on reverse; both a trifle soiled and the former with some wear at edges

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Estimate
£300 to £400

Starting price
£210