Lot 42216 – Entire letter from a sender on board the HMS “Harrier” at Callao addressed to Brussels, with letter’s perambulations around Europe beginning at Liverpool, then London, Brussels, Geneva, Nice, Lyon, Milan and Florence,

1838 (March 14). Entire letter from a sender on board the HMS “Harrier” at Callao addressed to Brussels, with contents being mostly maritime gossip incl. a duel between two Americans, so the author was presumably a naval officer, with letter’s perambulations around Europe beginning at Liverpool, then London, Brussels, Geneva, Nice, Lyon, Milan and Florence, the letter being apparently prepaid at Brussels (blue hs) incl. “Franco Frontière” hs, following rate markings of some complexity, red “T.F.” and “W P”, Geneva transit, Italian hs, etc, an extraordinary usage from a military sender.