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  • Lot# : 1151 Italy

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    1820 (June 6): Entire letter from Scole, Norfolk to Corfu, endorsed 'via Napoli & Otranto' carried privately and struck with AACHEN transit in black where rated at '7' gute groschen and struck with FRANCO in red. Thence carried south via Bologna, Rome and Naples and struck there in transit with rNapoli datestamp (July 10) and oval AGDP control marking in red. Thence via Otranto to Corfu and cancelled by circular ISOLE / IONIE in brown with '5¼d.' rate inserted in manuscript, this amount altered to oboli currenncy and marked on reverse 'Oboli 42¾' to pay in manuscript. A rare and unusual routing.rnrnNote: The letter is written by the classical scholar Robert Walpole (1781-1856), publishing 'Memoirs of European and Asiatic Turkey' in 1818.
    Starting bid : 400 CHF
    Hammer price : 400 CHF