Lot 20122 – EXTREMELY RARE DESTINATION TO DENMARK: 1859 Lapirot 2d blue, wprn impression, on cover to Denmark

EXTREMELY RARE DESTINATION TO DENMARK

2d blue, close at bottom left to very large uneven margins, tied by black oval bars cancel, on 1859 folded letter sheet from Port Louis via Suez and Marseille to Copenhagen (Denmark), with red maritime Suez transit cds alongside, Hamburg and Copenhagen bs, a very fine and extremely rare destination, apparently the only recorded Lapirot cover to Denmark, showpiece

Rate: 2d postage on priced catalogues mailed outward by Packet Letter under Article 7 of the Postal Ordinance No. 1 of 1850

Provenance: Hiroyaki Kanai, November 1993 (Lot 185)

Vikram Chand

Expertise: Cert. BPA (1994)