2d blue, position 1, touched to close margins and neatly tied by circular “3” in bars and boxed ‘SOUILLAC/JU.16.1854’ ds alongside, on 1854 small neat folded entire Souillac to Port Louis, with ‘MAURITIUS/GPO’ crowned circle and boxed ‘INLAND’ alongside, very rare, apparently one of six such letters recorded to date
Rate: 2d inland rate. This rate was for letters from rural post towns or villages to Port Louis, not exceeding 1/2 ounce, this rate remaining in use and unchanged from the introduction of the Post Ordinance No. 8 of 1850
Provenance: Vikram Chand
Expertise: Cert. BPA (1996)
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