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Lot 30039 – 1857 (Dec 17) Envelope sent from Mauritius to India with ms notation on arrival “Not found / Return to Mauritius” plus returned letter cover

Stamp of Mauritius » Pre-Stamp & Stampless Postal History 1857 (Dec 17) Envelope sent from Mauritius to India with ms notation on arrival "Not found / Return to Mauritius" plus returned letter cover
Stamp of Mauritius » Pre-Stamp & Stampless Postal History 1857 (Dec 17) Envelope sent from Mauritius to India with ms notation on arrival "Not found / Return to Mauritius" plus returned letter cover
Stamp of Mauritius » Pre-Stamp & Stampless Postal History 1857 (Dec 17) Envelope sent from Mauritius to India with ms notation on arrival "Not found / Return to Mauritius" plus returned letter cover
Stamp of Mauritius » Pre-Stamp & Stampless Postal History 1857 (Dec 17) Envelope sent from Mauritius to India with ms notation on arrival "Not found / Return to Mauritius" plus returned letter cover
Stamp of Mauritius » Pre-Stamp & Stampless Postal History 1857 (Dec 17) Envelope sent from Mauritius to India with ms notation on arrival "Not found / Return to Mauritius" plus returned letter cover
Stamp of Mauritius » Pre-Stamp & Stampless Postal History 1857 (Dec 17) Envelope sent from Mauritius to India with ms notation on arrival "Not found / Return to Mauritius" plus returned letter cover
Stamp of Mauritius » Pre-Stamp & Stampless Postal History 1857 (Dec 17) Envelope sent from Mauritius to India with ms notation on arrival "Not found / Return to Mauritius" plus returned letter cover
Stamp of Mauritius » Pre-Stamp & Stampless Postal History 1857 (Dec 17) Envelope sent from Mauritius to India with ms notation on arrival "Not found / Return to Mauritius" plus returned letter cover
Lot 30039 – 1857 (Dec 17) Envelope sent from Mauritius to India with ms notation on arrival “Not found / Return to Mauritius” plus returned letter cover
Mauritius » Pre-Stamp & Stampless Postal History
Price realised
320 GBP
Estimate
200 – 300 GBP
Auction date
Wed 28 Oct 2020 at 16:00 (Europe/Zurich)

1857 (Dec 17) Envelope from Pipon Bell (incl. original contents) sent from Mauritius to India, endorsed “p Mont Blanc” with crowned GPO ds, with ms notation on arrival “Not found / Return to Mauritius”, and sent back on 26th Jan with Calcutta boxed ship letter ds on reverse with ms rates, plus a “Returned Letter” cover from the Dead Letter Office in Mauritius (for this same correspondence but not the matching cover) and sent back to Pipon Bell & Co., dated June 23 inside, most unusual

Provenance: Vikram Chand

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